Edmond Baird Ryckman
Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Edmond Baird Ryckman, Template:Post-nominals (April 15, 1866 – January 11, 1934) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Huntingdon,[1] Canada East, he moved with his family to Kingston, Canada West, and then Guelph.[2] He was educated at Brantford Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto, and Osgoode Hall.[1] His father, E.B. Ryckman, was a Methodist minister.
After graduating from law school, Ryckman formed the commercial and corporate law firm Ryckman, Kirkpatrick, Kerr and MacInnes, which represented Canadian companies including Molson Bank.[2]
He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Toronto East in the 1921 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1925, 1926, and 1930.[2]
In 1926, he was the Minister of Public Works in the short lived cabinet of Arthur Meighen; when he accepted the post he resigned his position as president of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Goods Company.[1]
From 1930 to 1933, he was the Minister of National Revenue. Template:1921 Canadian federal election/Toronto East Template:1925 Canadian federal election/Toronto East Template:1926 Canadian federal election/Toronto East Template:1930 Canadian federal election/Toronto East
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External links
- RYCKMAN, EDMOND BAIRD in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- Edmond Baird Ryckman – Parliament of Canada biography
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- 1866 births
- 1934 deaths
- Lawyers in Ontario
- Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario
- Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
- Politicians from Montérégie
- Anglophone Quebec people
- 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada