predecessor successor parliament birth_place constituency_mp death_date cabinet party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
district was created in 1949 james augustine power james augustine power richard cashin canadian st. john 's , newfoundland st. john 's west 10 january 1989 minister general of canada -lrb- 1960 -- 1962 -rrb- without portfolio -lrb- 1957 -- 1960 -rrb- solicitor progressive conservative 3 may 1897 1949 1957 william joseph browne
 1953 1962 william joseph browne
william joseph browne

william joseph browne , -lrb- may 3 , 1897 -- january 10 , 1989 -rrb- was a canadian lawyer , judge and politician .
he served in the newfoundland house of assembly and the canadian house of commons .
the son of liberius browne and bridget o'reilly , he was born in st. john 's , newfoundland and was educated at holy cross school , saint bonaventure 's college , the university of oxford , the university of toronto and gray 's inn in london .
browne was called to the bars of both england and newfoundland in 1922 and practised law in newfoundland .
browne ran unsuccessfully for the placentia-st .
mary 's seat in the newfoundland assembly in 1923 .
he was elected for st. john 's west in 1924 and defeated when he ran for reelection in 1928 .
he was elected to the assembly again in 1932 for harbour main-bell island and so was a member of the last newfoundland house of assembly in 1933 when the commission of government took over governing newfoundland .
he was a cabinet minister in the government of frederick c. alderdice , first serving as a minister without portfolio and then as minister of finance and customs and minister of justice .
in 1934 , he was named king 's counsel .
from 1934 to 1939 , browne was a judge in the central district court .
in 1949 , he was elected to the canadian house of commons in the riding of st. john 's west .
a progressive conservative , he was defeated in the 1953 federal election .
he was elected again to the house of assembly in 1954 .
he was re-elected to the house of commons in the 1957 and 1958 elections .
he was defeated in the 1962 election and again in the 1965 election .
from 1957 to 1960 , he was a minister without portfolio in the cabinet of john diefenbaker .
from 1960 to 1962 , he was the solicitor general of canada .
he retired from politics in 1962 and returned to the practice of law .
in 1981 , he published his biography , `` eighty-four years a newfoundlander : memoirs of william j. browne '' -lrb- isbn 0-9690979-0-5 -rrb- .
he was married three times : first to mary grace harris in 1924 , then to mary roche in 1933 and later to margaret fleming -lrb- née buckley -rrb- in 1951 .
browne died in st. john 's at the age of 91 .
