Sir robert borden biography

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    Former Prime Minister of Canada, Sir Robert Borden served as Queen's fifth Chancellor.

    When Sir Robert Laird Borden succeeded Sir Edward Wentworth Beatty as Chancellor of Queen's in , he was one of the most well known men in Canada. He had served as Prime Minister from , leading Canada through WWI and helping the young nation take important steps to independence from Britain.

    Born on June 26, in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, Borden was raised on a farm and taught at private academies in Canada and the US before articling with a law firm in Halifax, Nova Scotia in He was admitted to the bar in and by headed a prestigious Halifax law firm.

    Borden was by this time one of Halifax's leading citizens and Prime Minister Sir Charles Tupper convinced him to run in the election as a Conservative. He was elected to Parliament in and in became leader of the Liberal-Conservative Party.

    As Leader of the Opposition, he advocated putting an end to patronage in government and demanded that appointment

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    Robert Borden

    Prime Minister of Canada from to

    This article is about the prime minister of Canada. For the American TV writer and producer, see Robert Borden (TV producer).

    The Right Honourable

    Sir Robert Borden

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    Borden in

    In office
    October 10, &#;– July 10,
    MonarchGeorge V
    Governors General
    Preceded byWilfrid Laurier
    Succeeded byArthur Meighen
    In office
    February 6, &#;– July 10,
    Preceded byCharles Tupper
    Succeeded byArthur Meighen
    In office
    December 17, &#;– July
    Preceded byArthur dem Witt Foster
    Succeeded byErnest William Robinson
    In office
    February 4, &#;– January 25,
    Preceded byEdward Kidd
    Succeeded byEdward Kidd
    In office
    October 26, &#;– December 16,
    Preceded byMichael Carney
    Succeeded byPeter Francis Martin
    In office
    June 23, &#;– November 2,
    Preceded byJohn Fitzwilliam Stairs
    Succeeded byMichael Carney
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    Sir Robert Borden () served as Canada's wartime Prime Minister from

    Born on 26 June in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, Borden gave up his studies at age 14 to become assistant master in classical studies at the school in which he was attending.  Teaching classics and mathematics in New Jersey in he returned the following year to Nova Scotia to study law, becoming articled to a Halifax law firm.

    Admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in he gained a prominent reputation in legal circles and founded - following his marriage to Laura Bond in - his own law firm.

    Borden was elected to the House of Commons in and and became leader of the Conservative party on 6 February , serving in opposition for ten years until his party's election victory of 21 September on a platform of resistance to U.S. economic influence, thereby ending Sir Wilfrid Laurier's run of 15 consecutive years as his country's premier.

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