Harry Butcher was a Liberal party

Liberal Party of Canada

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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. He was born in Greenwich

Greenwich

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, England

England

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 and became a barrister.

Butcher moved from the United Kingdom to Canada in 1904. He attended private schools in England, then studied at the University of Manchester

University of Manchester

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 from which he received his Bachelor of Laws

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 degree.

From 1920 to 1930, he served as chair of the Punnichy, Saskatchewan

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 school board.

He was elected to Parliament at the Last Mountain

Last Mountain (electoral district)

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 riding in the 1930 general election

Canadian federal election, 1930

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 after a previous unsuccessful campaign there in the 1925 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1925

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. After serving his only House of Commons term, the 17th Canadian Parliament

17th Canadian Parliament

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, Butcher left federal politics and did not seek re-election in the 1935 vote

Canadian federal election, 1935

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