predecessor successor parliament appointed constituency_mp birth_place death_date cabinet party portfolio office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
t. . franklin ahearn the riding was created in 1966 cyril lloyd francis hugh poulin canadian canadian pierre trudeau ottawa west ottawa centre lanark , ontario 19 august 1992 solicitor minister of public works -lrb- 1965 -- 1968 -rrb- minister general of justice and attorney general of canada -lrb- acting -rrb- of -lrb- 1965 -rrb- minister of national revenue -lrb- acting -rrb- canada -lrb- 1964 -rrb- president of the privy council -lrb- 1964 -lrb- -- 1965 -rrb- minister of transport -lrb- 1963 -- 1964 1968 -rrb- -- 1970 -rrb- liberal parliamentary -- 1948 -rrb- parliamentary assistant to the minister of trade assistant and commerce -lrb- 1948 -- 1953 -rrb- parliamentary assistant to to the minister of defence production -lrb- 1951 -- 1953 -rrb- the minister of reconstruction -lrb- 1945 senator for ottawa valley , ontario 29 july 1908 1940 1968 1972 george mcilraith
 1968 1972 1983 george james mcilraith
george mcilraith

george james mcilraith , pc , qc -lrb- july 29 , 1908 -- august 19 , 1992 -rrb- was a lawyer and canadian parliamentarian .
the son of james mcilraith and kate mcleod , he was educated at osgoode hall and practised law in ottawa .
in 1935 , he married margaret summers .
mcilraith was first elected to the canadian house of commons in the 1940 federal election as the liberal member of parliament for ottawa west .
he was subsequently re-elected on nine successive occasions .
mcilraith joined the cabinet of lester pearson when the liberals formed government following the 1963 federal election as minister of transport .
from 1964 until 1967 , he was government house leader in charge of the pearson minority government 's parliamentary strategy for much of its tenure , including during the great flag debate and parliamentary debates on the introduction of medicare .
he also served as pearson 's minister of public works from 1965 on , and was also pierre trudeau 's first public works minister .
he served as solicitor-general of canada from 1968 until 1970 under trudeau , who appointed him to the canadian senate in 1972 .
the george mcilraith bridge over the rideau river is named for him .
