Francis Longworth Haszard (November 20, 1849 – July 25, 1938) was a

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politician and jurist, the tenth

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. Haszard's family had been

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moving to PEI from the

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after the

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. Longworth was born at Bellevue,

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. He studied law, was called to the bar in 1872 and set up practice in

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. He had been a

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in Charlottetown before being elected to the provincial

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for the first time in 1904 as a

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. In 1908, he was asked by the

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to become premier after the death of Arthur Peters. The Liberals had been in power since 1891 and their

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had almost equal strength in the house. Haszard represented PEI at the Maritime and Inter-Provincial conferences held in 1910 and attempted to obtain a better deal for the province from the federal government. Haszard left politics in 1911 to accept an appointment to the province's

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and as

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. He retired from the bench in 1930.

References

Francis Longworth Haszard, Premiers Gallery, Government of Prince Edward Island
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