Joseph Thorarinn Thorson
Template:Short description Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Joseph Thorarinn Thorson, Template:Post-nominals (March 15, 1889 – July 6, 1978) was a lawyer and politician from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
He was a Rhodes Scholar, and a veteran of World War I.
He was the Liberal Member of Parliament for the ridings of Winnipeg South Centre (1926—1930) and Selkirk (1935—1942). From 1941 to 1942, he was the Minister of National War Services in the cabinet of William Lyon Mackenzie King.
In 1942, he was made President of the Exchequer Court of Canada.
Cartoonist Charles Thorson was his younger brother. He married Alleen B. Scarth on December 30, 1916, and had three children.
Electoral history
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References
- Joseph Thorarinn Thorson – Parliament of Canada biography
- Joseph Thorarinn Thorson fonds, Library and Archives Canada
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- 1889 births
- 1978 deaths
- Liberal Party of Canada MPs
- Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Manitoba
- Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
- Canadian people of Icelandic descent
- Judges of the Exchequer Court of Canada
- Members of the Middle Temple
- Lawyers in Manitoba
- Canadian Rhodes Scholars
- Alumni of New College, Oxford
- Canadian King's Counsel
- Canadian Expeditionary Force officers
- Academic staff of the University of Manitoba
- 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada