William J. West, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Coles Island, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada
About William J. West
- William John West (December 20, 1892 – February 24, 1985) was a Canadian politician.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick as member of the Progressive Conservative party from 1952 to 1960.
- Active as a Lawyer, politician, and judge, he was the son of Amelia Prince Small and Wesley West, was born at Cole's Island, Queens County, New Brunswick on 20 December 1892.
- Educated at local schools in Coles Island, he attended Gagetown Grammar School and later Mount Allison (B.A.) and Harvard (LL.B.) universities.
- In addition to farm work, he spent five years as a clerk in a country store, time as a lumberjack and rafter, and a year running a large sawmill.
- Although politics interested him from a young age, he followed his father's and grandfather's affiliation to the Progressive Conservative Party, it was only through an uncle that the law suggested itself as an option.
- Called to the New Brunswick bar in 1923, he practised law, first at Woodstock (1923-1928) and then in Fredericton under the firm name Hanson, Dougherty & West.
- In 1933 he married Katherine E.
- MacMurray, and the couple raised two daughters, Mary (Pratt) and Barbara (Cross). William West's education at Mount Allison was interrupted in 1915, when he enlisted as a gunner in the 1st C.G.A.
- He served overseas in England and France with the artillery, a signal corps, and Canadian engineers during the First World War, including duty at Vimy and Paschendale.
- He was demobilized from the army in April 1919 with the rank of lieutenant. West was active in the business and political arenas.
- He served as director of the A.
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- Loggie Company and the Maritime Trust Company.
- Two terms on Fredericton City Council were followed in 1952 by election on the Progressive Conservative ticket as an MLA for York County.
- He served as Attorney General in Hugh John Flemming's cabinet until 1958, when he was appointed to the Appeals Division of the New Brunswick Supreme Court.
- He stepped down from the court in 1967 and among his retirement achievements was the publication of The Wests of Coles Island, The Story of a Family, in 1982.
- Judge West died February 24, 1985.
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