Albert Edgar Hickman (August 2, 1875 – February 9, 1943) was the seventeenth Prime Minister of

Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

and has the distinction of having served the shortest term of any Prime Minister.

Biography

Albert Hickman was born in Grand Bank on August 2, 1875. He married Mary Louise Laurie on December 24, 1906, and they had three children. A politician and businessman, he served as Prime Minister of Newfoundland for 33 days in 1924 as leader of a caretaker administration after the successive collapses of the Liberal Reform Party governments of Prime Ministers Sir

Richard Squires Sir Richard Anderson Squires KCMG (January 18, 1880 – March 26, 1940) was the Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1919 to 1923 and from 1928 to 1932. As prime minister, Squires attempted to reform Newfoundland's fishing industry, but failed a ...

and William Warren. The

governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

asked Hickman to form an administration to govern the province when the government of William Warren was defeated in a

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. Hickman invited members of various former members of the Liberal Reform Party as well as members of other parties into his government which he called the Liberal-Progressive Party. His new party was defeated in the 9 June 1924 election by former supporters of Warren who joined with the conservative opposition to form the Liberal-Conservative Progressive Party. Hickman served as

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until he retired from politics in 1928, by which time his party had degenerated and a new Liberal Party had emerged led by Squires. Albert Hickman died at his home in St. John's on February 9, 1943.

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Newfoundland in the 1920s
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hickman, Albert 1875 births 1943 deaths Prime Ministers of the Dominion of Newfoundland People from Grand Bank