Arnold Danford Patrick Heeney, (April 5, 1902 – December 20, 1970) was a
Canadian
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lawyer
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,
diplomat
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and
civil servant
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.
He was born in
Montreal, Quebec
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. He was educated at
St. John's College, Winnipeg and received a
Bachelor of Arts
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degree in 1921 and a
Master of Arts
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degree in 1923 both from the
University of Manitoba
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Rhodes Scholar
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he went on to
St. John's College, Oxford before returning to
Canada
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, earning a
Bachelor of Civil Law
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degree at
McGill University
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.
Specializing in Maritime law, in 1929 he joined the
Montreal
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law firm of
Meredith, Holden, Heward & Holden. In one of his last cases with the firm, he successfully represented
F. R. Scott
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against the
City of Westmount
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.
In 1938, he took the position of
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to Prime Minister
William Lyon Mackenzie King
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. From 1940 to 1949, he was Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet. He was perhaps the most important civil servant during
World War II
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.
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In 1949, he became Under Secretary of State for External Affairs, then Ambassador to the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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. He was Canada's Ambassador to the United States from 1953 to 1957 and 1959 to 1962.
In 1968, he was made a Companion of the
Order of Canada
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To coincide with the ...
. He died in Ottawa in 1970.
References
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External links
Arnold Heeneyat
The Canadian Encyclopedia
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1902 births
1970 deaths
Anglophone Quebec people
Ambassadors of Canada to the United States
Canadian Anglicans
Canadian Rhodes Scholars
Clerks of the Privy Council (Canada)
Companions of the Order of Canada
Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
Lawyers from Montreal
University of Manitoba alumni
Permanent Representatives of Canada to NATO
Alumni of St John's College, Oxford
20th-century Canadian lawyers
McGill University Faculty of Law alumni
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