ParlInfo

Eighteenth

Term (yyyy.mm.dd): 1936.02.06 - 1940.01.25

Duration: 1449 days (3 years, 11 months, 19 days)

Government Type:Majority Government

Government Party: Liberal Party of Canada

Number of Sessions:6

Date of General Election: 1935.10.14

Prime Minister:

King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1935.10.23 - 1948.11.14)

Leader of the Official Opposition:

Manion, Robert James (1938.07.07 - 1940.05.13)
Bennett, Richard Bedford (1935.10.23 - 1938.07.06)

Senators

^ At Dissolution

Conservative (1867-1942) (49)
Liberal Party of Canada (31)
Vacant Seats (15)
Independent (1)

Conservative (1867-1942) (49)

Name	Province	Date of Appointment
Aseltine, Walter Morley	Saskatchewan	1933.12.30
Ballantyne, Charles Colquhoun	Quebec	1932.02.03
Barnard, George Henry	British Columbia	1917.10.23
Beaubien, Charles-Philippe	Quebec	1915.12.03
Black, Frank Bunting	New Brunswick	1921.11.25
Blondin, Pierre Édouard	Quebec	1918.07.20
Bourgeois, Charles	Quebec	1935.08.15
Bourque, Thomas-Jean	New Brunswick	1917.01.20
Calder, James Alexander	Saskatchewan	1921.09.22
Cantley, Thomas	Nova Scotia	1935.07.20
Chapais, Joseph Amable Thomas	Quebec	1919.12.31
Côté, Louis	Ontario	1933.12.30
Dennis, William Henry	Nova Scotia	1932.02.03
Donnelly, James J.	Ontario	1913.05.26
Fallis, Iva Campbell	Ontario	1935.07.20
Fauteux, Guillaume-André	Quebec	1933.12.30
Gordon, George	Ontario	1912.10.17
Green, Robert Francis	British Columbia	1921.10.03
Griesbach, William Antrobus	Alberta	1921.09.15
Haig, John Thomas	Manitoba	1935.08.14
Horner, Ralph Byron	Saskatchewan	1933.12.30
Jones, George Burpee	New Brunswick	1935.07.20
Laird, Henry Willoughby	Saskatchewan	1917.01.31
Léger, Antoine Joseph	New Brunswick	1935.08.14
L'Espérance, David Ovide	Quebec	1917.07.26
Lynch-Staunton, George	Ontario	1917.01.20
Macdonald, John Alexander	Prince Edward Island	1935.07.20
Macdonald, John Alexander	Nova Scotia	1932.03.02
Marcotte, Arthur	Saskatchewan	1931.07.06
McMeans, Lendrum	Manitoba	1917.07.26
McRae, Alexander Duncan	British Columbia	1931.09.04
Meighen, Arthur	Ontario	1932.03.02
Michener, Edward	Alberta	1918.02.05
Moraud, Lucien	Quebec	1933.12.30
Mullins, Henry Alfred	Manitoba	1935.08.14
Paquet, Eugène	Quebec	1935.08.14
Pope, Rufus Henry	Quebec	1911.11.14
Quinn, Felix Patrick	Nova Scotia	1935.07.20
Rainville, Joseph Hormisdas	Quebec	1932.10.06
Rhodes, Edgar Nelson	Nova Scotia	1935.07.20
Robicheau, Jean-Louis Philippe	Nova Scotia	1935.07.20
Sauvé, Arthur	Quebec	1935.07.20
Sharpe, William Henry	Manitoba	1916.02.10
Smith, Ernest D'Israeli	Ontario	1913.05.26
Sutherland, Donald	Ontario	1935.07.20
Tanner, Charles Elliott	Nova Scotia	1917.01.20
Taylor, James Davis	British Columbia	1917.10.23
Webster, Lorne Campbell	Quebec	1920.01.10
White, Gerald Verner	Ontario	1919.11.06

Liberal Party of Canada (31)

Name	Province	Date of Appointment
Aylesworth, Allen Bristol	Ontario	1923.01.11
Buchanan, William Ashbury	Alberta	1925.09.05
Copp, Arthur Bliss	New Brunswick	1925.09.25
Dandurand, Raoul	Quebec	1898.01.22
Duff, William	Nova Scotia	1936.02.28
Farris, John Wallace de Beque	British Columbia	1937.01.09
Foster, Walter Edward	New Brunswick	1928.12.06
Graham, George Perry	Ontario	1926.12.20
Hardy, Arthur Charles	Ontario	1922.02.10
Harmer, William James	Alberta	1918.02.05
Horsey, Henry Herbert	Ontario	1928.12.14
Hugessen, Adrian Norton Knatchbull	Quebec	1937.01.12
Hughes, James Joseph	Prince Edward Island	1925.09.05
King, James Horace	British Columbia	1930.06.07
Lacasse, Joseph-Henri-Gustave	Ontario	1928.01.10
Lambert, Norman Platt	Ontario	1938.01.20
Little, Edgar Sydney	Ontario	1928.01.10
Logan, Hance James	Nova Scotia	1929.02.05
MacArthur, Creelman	Prince Edward Island	1925.09.05
Marshall, Duncan McLean	Ontario	1938.01.20
McGuire, William Henry	Ontario	1926.12.20
Molloy, John Patrick	Manitoba	1925.10.06
Murdock, James	Ontario	1930.03.20
Parent, Georges	Quebec	1930.06.03
Prévost, Jules-Édouard	Quebec	1930.06.03
Raymond, Donat	Quebec	1926.12.20
Riley, Daniel Edward	Alberta	1926.06.25
Robinson, Clifford William	New Brunswick	1924.05.05
Sinclair, John Ewen	Prince Edward Island	1930.06.07
Turgeon, Onésiphore	New Brunswick	1922.10.27
Wilson, Cairine Reay First woman Senator in Canadian history. First woman appointed Chair of a Senate Standing Committee (Immigration and Labour).	Ontario	1930.02.15

Vacant Seats (15)

Independent (1)

Name	Province	Date of Appointment
McDonald, John Anthony	New Brunswick	1921.02.17