Ralph Maybank, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ralph Maybank

Canadian politician

Date of Birth: 17-Aug-1890

Date of Death: 19-Mar-1965

Profession: judge, politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Ralph Maybank

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  • Ralph Maybank (August 17, 1890 – March 19, 1965) was a politician from Manitoba, Canada.
  • He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1932 to 1935, and in the House of Commons of Canada from 1935 to 1951.
  • Maybank was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada.The son of John Maybank and Marion Bates, Maybank was born in London, Ontario.
  • He served in the Royal Flying Corps during World War I.
  • He was educated at the University of Manitoba, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree (1919) and a law degree (1922).
  • He was called to the Manitoba bar in 1923.
  • In 1927, Maybank married Dora Boys.He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1927, in the Winnipeg constituency.
  • At the time, Winnipeg elected ten members via a single transferable ballot.
  • Maybank, running as a Liberal, finished seventeenth on the first count and was not elected. From 1929 to 1931, Maybank served as a member of Winnipeg city council.In 1932, the governing Progressive Party of Manitoba formed an electoral alliance with the Liberal Party, and government members subsequently became known as Liberal-Progressives.
  • Maybank again ran in Manitoba, finished tenth on the first count, and narrowly won election for the final seat.
  • On the final count, he defeated Leslie Morris by 309 votes for tenth place.
  • Had Morris been elected, he would have been the first Communist to serve in a provincial legislature in Canada. For the next three years, Maybank served as a backbench supporter of John Bracken's government.
  • He resigned his seat on October 1, 1935, to run for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1935 federal election.
  • He elected for the riding of Winnipeg South Centre, defeated Conservative candidate William Walker Kennedy and Cooperative Commonwealth Federation candidate Stanley Knowles.
  • The Liberal Party won this election, and Maybank served as a backbench supporter of William Lyon Mackenzie King's government. Maybank defeated Kennedy a second time in the 1940 election, and defeated future Manitoba Cooperative Commonwealth Federation leader Lloyd Stinson by 3,996 votes in the 1945 election.
  • On November 30, 1947, he was promoted to parliamentary assistant to the Minister of National Health and Welfare.
  • On January 25, 1949, he was named assistant to the Minister of Mines and Resources.Maybank defeated Progressive Conservative Gordon Churchill in the 1949 federal election.
  • On January 24, 1951, he was named parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Resources and Development.
  • He resigned his seat on March 30, 1951.In the 1940s, Maybank led a revolt of Liberal Members of Parliament from western Canada against a proposed rise in the cross-border tariff.
  • They were successful, and the tariff increase was set aside. In July 1951, he was named to the Manitoba Court of King's Bench.
  • He died in Winnipeg while still a judge.There is currently a Ralph Maybank School in Winnipeg, and the surrounding area is known as Maybank. Maybank had three sons: John (deceased), Roger, and Micky (deceased).

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