Murdoch MacPherson
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Murdoch Alexander MacPherson, Q.C. (1891 on Cape Breton Island - ??) was a Canadian politician. He was Attorney-General of Saskatchewan under Conservative Premier James T.M. Anderson from 1929 to 1932.
MacPherson attended law school at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He served in World War I and was wounded. MacPherson Avenue in Regina, Saskatchewan was later named in his honor, and is an official memorial of the Canadian Department of National Defence.
After the war he practiced law in Saskatchewan and eventually became a Queen's Counsel (Q.C.).
MacPherson was first elected to the Saskatchewan legislative assembly in 1924, and remained a member of the Legislative Assembly until his defeat in the 1934 provincial election that wiped out the Conservative Party. He was called to Ottawa late in the term of the R.B. Bennett government to assist in creating the Farm Credit Corporation.
In 1938 and again in 1942, he was a candidate at the federal Conservative leadership conventions, coming in second place on both occasions.
In May 1961, he received an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from the University of Saskatchewan.One of his three sons, Murdoch Alexander MacPherson Jr., born in 1916, served as a Judge of the Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench from 1961 to 1981 and died at 86 on June 4, 2003, leaving some to mistakenly presume that the elder MacPherson had reached supercentenarian age.
External links
- Brief biography from MacPherson Leslie & Tyerman LLP Lawyers - This firm is the present-day successor of the law firm that MacPherson founded in 1920 in Regina
- University of Saskatchewan archives - Information on MacPherson's honorary degree
- Notice on MacPherson Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan - From Canadian Dept. of National Defence, Department of History and Heritage