Gideon Robertson
Canadian politician
Died when: 58 years 344 days (707 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Gideon Decker Robertson, PC (August 26, 1874 – August 5, 1933) was a Canadian Senator and Canadian Cabinet minister.Robertson was a telegrapher by profession and had links with conservatives in the labour movement.
In January 1917, he was appointed to the Senate as a Conservative as a means of bringing in labour representation during the First World War.
When Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden formed a Unionist government in October as a means of creating a national government for the war effort, he included Robertson in the cabinet, making him minister without portfolio despite not having a seat in the House of Commons, to represent organised labour.
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