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Michael A. Meighen | |
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| 19th Chancellor of McGill University | |
| Assumed office 2014 | |
| Senator for St. Marys, Ontario | |
| In office September 27, 1990 – February 6, 2012 | |
| Appointed by | Brian Mulroney |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 25, 1939 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Profession | lawyer |
Michael Arthur Meighen, CM, QC (born March 25, 1939) is a former Canadian senator, lawyer and cultural patron. A litigation and commercial lawyer who has practiced in Montreal and Toronto, he is a member of the Bars of both Ontario and Quebec.
Meighen is the son of lawyer and philanthropist Theodore Meighen and philanthropist Peggy deLancey Robinson, and the grandson of former Prime Minister of Canada Arthur Meighen. Following his father's death, his mother was married to Senator Hartland Molson from 1990 until her death in 2001.
Meighen was educated at Selwyn House School and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1960 from McGill University, where he was a member of the Alpha Delta Phi Memorial Chapter and Scarlet Key Honor Society. In addition, he also holds two honorary doctorates, from the University of New Brunswick and from Mount Allison University.[1]
Meighen is a longtime friend, advisor and fundraiser for former Progressive Conservative leader and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who appointed Meighen to the Senate in 1990, representing Ontario. Both he and Mulroney are lawyers at the law firm of Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP. They also attended law school together at Université Laval in Quebec City, along with other prominent Canadian political leaders such as Lucien Bouchard.
In 1972 and again in 1974, he was the Progressive Conservative candidate in the Montreal riding of Westmount, losing on both occasions to Liberal Charles Drury.[2][3]
He served as national president of the Progressive Conservative Party from 1974 to 1977, during which time he oversaw the 1976 leadership convention that chose Joe Clark to succeed Robert Stanfield as party leader.[4]
In the mid-1980s, Meighen was legal counsel to the Deschênes Commission on War Criminals.[4] Today, Meighen is counsel to the law firm of Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, which merged with his former firm Meighen Demers in 2001. He is a member of the McGill University Board of Governors and a director of the Cundill Funds, Sentry Select Capital Corp., and J.C. Clark Ltd. of Toronto. In January 2007, Meighen was appointed by the Canadian Government as a Commissioner of the Roosevelt Campobello International Park.
He and his wife, Kelly Meighen (née Dillon), are benefactors of the Stratford Festival. In 2004, he became Canadian chair of the Atlantic Salmon Federation, which promotes conservation efforts. He is past chair of the Stratford Festival, current chair of the T. R. Meighen Family Foundation and served as chancellor of the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Meighen sought election to the Canadian House of Commons in both the 1972 federal election and 1974 in the Quebec riding of Westmount but failed to win the seat.
More recently, Meighen was the only Conservative senator to vote in favour of same-sex marriage. He was a member of the Banking Trade and Commerce, National Security & Defense and Fisheries committees. Meighen also chaired the Senate Sub-Committee on Veterans Affairs.
Meighen was vice-chair of the Senate Committee on National Defence and Security until February 2007 when he and the chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, fellow moderate Tory Hugh Segal, were instructed to resign their positions by the Prime Minister's Office. Reportedly, the Prime Minister wished to promote more ideologically conservative Senators.[5] Meighen resigned from the Senate on February 6, 2012.[6]
On January 16, 2014, McGill University appointed Meighen as its 19th Chancellor, for a three-year term beginning on July 1, 2014.[7] Also in 2014, he was named a Member of the Order of Canada.[8]
He and his wife have three sons, Ted, Hugh and Max. He lives in Toronto.
References
- ^ Meighen to be Chancellor of McGill
- ^ http://www.parl.gc.ca/about/parliament/federalridingshistory/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cresdetail&Election=8307
- ^ http://www.parl.gc.ca/about/parliament/federalridingshistory/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cresdetail&Election=8419
- ^ a b "Meighen to be McGill's 19th Chancellor". McGill Reporter. January 17, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2015.
- ^ http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070227/senate_chamber_070227/20070227?hub=Politics
- ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/01/30/michael-meighen-senator-retire-senate_n_1242005.html
- ^ https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/node/19598#!
- ^ Order of Canada citation
External links
- 1939 births
- Living people
- Canadian senators from Ontario
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada senators
- Conservative Party of Canada senators
- Lawyers in Quebec
- Canadian Queen's Counsel
- Chancellors of McGill University
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidates in the 1972 Canadian federal election
- Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidates in the 1974 Canadian federal election
- McGill University alumni
- Canadian people of Ulster-Scottish descent
- Anglophone Quebec people