Charles Lawrence Bishop (December 10, 1876 – September 28, 1966) was a journalist and the first working reporter to be appointed to the

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."First reporter to be named to Senate seat", ''Globe and Mail'', September 29, 1966 Bishop was born in

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and was educated at

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. He was a

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correspondent for almost 50 years before being appointed to the

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. He began as a correspondent for the ''

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'' in 1898 and subsequently reported for the Southam chain. He was Southam's Ottawa bureau chief when he was named to the Senate in 1945 by

William Lyon Mackenzie King William Lyon Mackenzie King (December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950) was a Canadian statesman and politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Canada for three non-consecutive terms from 1921 to 1926, 1926 to 1930, and 1935 to 1948. A Li ...

and

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ed the Parliamentary

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with the news of his own appointment. He served as president of the press gallery on several occasions, the first being in 1918. Prior to joining the press gallery, Bishop was briefly private secretary to

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W.S. Fielding William Stevens Fielding, (November 24, 1848 – June 23, 1929) was a Canadian Liberal politician, the seventh premier of Nova Scotia (1884–96), and the federal Minister of Finance from 1896 to 1911 and again from 1921 to 1925. Early life ...

in 1896. He sat in the Senate as a

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for the Senatorial division of Ottawa, Ontario.Parliamentary biography
/ref> At the time of his resignation from the Senate, several days prior to his death, he was the oldest working Senator.

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* 1876 births 1966 deaths Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents Canadian senators from Ontario Liberal Party of Canada senators People from Annapolis County, Nova Scotia Place of death missing {{Ontario-politician-stub