Bamm David Hogarth (October 24, 1887
– November 13, 1966
) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in
Saskatchewan
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. He represented
Regina City
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This riding was created in 1933 from parts of Regina riding.
It consisted initially of the city of ...
from 1938 to 1944 in the
Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
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as a
Liberal
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Politics
* a supporter of liberalism
** Liberalism by country
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* Social liberalism
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.
He was born in
Minnedosa, Manitoba
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, the son of George A. Hogarth, of
Scottish descent, and was educated in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Hogarth was first employed as a
newspaper delivery boy for the ''
Winnipeg Free Press
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''.
He came to
Regina, Saskatchewan
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in 1906.
Hogarth was called to the Saskatchewan bar in 1913 and practised law in Regina. He married Mabel Melrose Scott. In 1935, he was named
King's Counsel
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.
Hogarth was a lecturer at
Wetmore Hall law school in
Regina until it became part of the University of Saskatchewan. He represented the Canadian government and the
RCMP
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at the
Royal Commission that investigated the
Regina riot
The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a mass protest movement in Canada in 1935 sparked by unrest among unemployed single men in federal relief camps principally in Western Canada. Federal relief camps were brought in under Prime Minister R. B. Bennett’s ...
of 1935.
In 1944, he was named to the District Court for Regina.
Hogarth retired from the bench in October 1962.
He died in a
Toronto
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hospital at the age of 79 following an operation.
References
Saskatchewan Liberal Party MLAs
1887 births
1966 deaths
Judges in Saskatchewan
Canadian King's Counsel
People from Minnedosa, Manitoba
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