Complex sentence: Stevens was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1911 general election as a Conservative and served in the short lived Cabinets of Prime Minister Arthur Meighen in 1921 as Minister of Trade and Commerce and in 1926 as Minister of Customs and Excise.
Split into simpler sentences: Stevens was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1911 general election as a Conservative. He served in the short-lived Cabinets of Prime Minister Arthur Meighen in 1921 as Minister of Trade and Commerce and in 1926 as Minister of Customs and Excise.