| 29th | Top Canadian diplomats |
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The Right
Honourable Sir George Halsey Perley KCMG, PC |
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In office 29 June 1926 – 24 September 1926 |
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| Prime Minister | Arthur Meighen |
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| Preceded by | Ernest Lapointe |
| Succeeded by | Fernand Rinfret |
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In office 4 August 1914 – 1922 |
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| Preceded by | Donald Alexander Smith |
| Succeeded by | Peter C. Larkin |
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Minister of the
Overseas Military Forces
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In office 31 October 1916 – 11 October 1917 |
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| Prime Minister | Robert Laird Borden |
| Succeeded by | Albert Edward Kemp |
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| Born | September 12, 1857 Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States |
| Died | January 4, 1938 (aged 80) |
| Nationality | American, Canadian |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Profession | Lumber merchant |
Sir George Halsey Perley, KCMG, PC (September 12, 1857 – January 4, 1938) was a Canadian politician and diplomat.
Born in Lebanon, New Hampshire, the son of William Goodhue Perley and Mabel E. Ticknor Stevens, Perley was educated at the Ottawa Grammar School, at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, and at Harvard University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1878.
He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons as the Conservative MP for Argenteuil in 1904 and served as High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Minister of the Overseas Military Forces in the World War I government of Sir Robert Borden. He did not run for re-election in the 1917 federal election in order to concentrate on his duties in London. He returned to the House of Commons in the 1925 federal election and subsequently served as Secretary of State for Canada in the short-lived 1926 government of Arthur Meighen and then as Minister without Portfolio in the government of R. B. Bennett following the 1930 federal election. He was re-elected in the 1935 federal election which also saw the defeat of Bennett's government, and remained an MP until his death in 1938.
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| Preceded by Thomas Christie, Jr. |
Member of
Parliament for Argenteuil 1904–1917 |
Succeeded by Peter Robert McGibbon |
| Preceded by Charles Stewart |
Member of
Parliament for Argenteuil 1925–1938 |
Succeeded by Georges-Henri Héon |
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| Preceded by Ernest Lapointe |
Secretary
of State of Canada 1926 |
Succeeded by Fernand Rinfret |
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| Preceded by Donald Alexander Smith |
Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1914-1922 |
Succeeded by Peter Charles Larkin |
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