Thomas Laird Kennedy (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Thomas Laird Kennedy (August 15, 1878 - February 13, 1959) was a politician in Ontario, Canada and served briefly as the 15th Premier of Ontario. He was first elected as the Conservative member for Peel in the 1919 provincial election. He had been a long time resident of Streetsville (now part of Mississauga), Ontario, where he was Master of River Park Masonic Lodge in 1908 and 1909. Kennedy was first appointed Minister of Agriculture in 1930 by Premier Howard Ferguson and continued in the position under Premier George S. Henry until the Conservative government's defeat in the 1934 provincial election. Kennedy was a casualty in the election losing his seat to the landslide that elected the government of Liberal Mitchell Hepburn. Kennedy returned to the legislature in the 1937 election and returned to government when the newly renamed Progressive Conservatives won the 1943 election. The new premier, George Drew, returned Kennedy to the position of Minister of Agriculture he had held a decade previously. Drew moved to federal politics in 1948 after losing his own seat in the 1948 provincial election which, nevertheless, re-elected the Tory government.