Meighen attempted to do so, but was unable to obtain a majority in the Commons and he, too, advised dissolution, which this time was accepted.

Borden's successor, Arthur Meighen formally attempted to make the Unionist coalition permanent by creating the " National Liberal and Conservative Party " but most Liberals ended up returning to their old party and some Conservatives balked at what they saw as an attempt to destroy the Conservative Party.

He resigned from the Senate and attempted to enter the House of Commons from a safe Conservative seat but Meighen was trounced by the CCF when he attempted to enter the House of Commons in a February 1942 by-election in York South.

Borden attempted to continue the Unionist Party after the war and when Arthur Meighen succeeded him in 1920, he renamed it the " National Liberal and Conservative Party " in the hope of making the coalition permanent.

After the war, most Liberal-Unionists rejoined the Liberal Party despite efforts by Borden and Arthur Meighen to make the coalition permanent by renaming the Conservative party the National Liberal and Conservative Party.

The Conservatives, led by Arthur Meighen, adopted the name in the hope of making permanent the war-time Unionist coalition of Conservatives and pro-conscription Liberals ( known as Liberal-Unionists ).

In the 1921 election, his party defeated Arthur Meighen and the Conservatives, and he became Prime Minister.

At the time, only one other governing party had lost more seats in an election ; Progressive Conservative, Arthur Meighen, was defeated by Mackenzie King's Liberals in the 1921 election and lost 104 seats in the process.

The Conservative caucus had chosen Hanson as interim leader, and he served as Conservative party leader until Arthur Meighen was appointed the party's new leader in November 1941.

He entered federal politics and served as Minister of Customs and Excise under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen in 1921 before taking over the leadership of the provincial Conservative party and leading it to victory in 1925.

until his party returned to government in the 1911 federal election under Robert Borden and he continued in the government under Arthur Meighen.

Hepburn supported Mackenzie King's opponent, the arch-Conservative Arthur Meighen, in a by-election in Toronto in 1942 ; ( this, notwithstanding Hepburn's later alliance with the Communist Party of Canada ).

The conference began with all but Canadian Prime Minister Arthur Meighen supporting the immediate renewal of an alliance with Japan.

In desperation, the Tories again turned to Arthur Meighen for leadership.

While Meighen and other Conservatives expressed public outrage at what they viewed as a desperate attempt on the part of King to cling to power, some Conservatives were privately relieved by King's decision ; they seriously doubted whether the Tories could convince the Progressives to support a Conservative government, were confident that King's attempt to remain in power would eventually fail, and thought the expected debacle would be so damaging to the Liberals ' reputation that the Conservatives would then be swept into office with a large majority.

Mackenzie King effectively campaigned against Byng in the election instead of against Meighen, and won the largest number of seats in the House of Commons despite receiving a smaller proportion of the popular vote than the Tories.

Despite having co-operated with the Liberals at the provincial level, Bracken was asked by a number of senior federal Conservatives ( including Arthur Meighen ) to take over the leadership of the weak national Conservative Party in 1942.

He served in the short-lived Cabinets of Prime Minister Arthur Meighen in 1921 as Minister of Trade and Commerce until the government was defeated by William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberals.

King's Liberals won a majority in the House of Commons, while Meighen lost his seat.

The riding is notable for the 1942 federal by-election in which newly-elected Conservative leader Arthur Meighen was defeated in his attempt to win a seat in the House of Commons by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation's ( CCF ) candidate ( assisted by the Liberals ).

William Lyon Mackenzie King and the Liberals were determined to block Meighen's return to politics: King didn't want the vocally pro-Conscription Meighen back in Parliament ( see Conscription Crisis of 1944 ).

The Second Folio was published by Allot, William Aspley, Richard Hawkins, Richard Meighen, and John Smethwick, and printed by Thomas Cotes.

Forke and most of the Manitoba Progressives made a deal with the Liberal Party and ran as Liberal-Progressives in the 1926 election prompted by the fall of the interim Conservative government of Arthur Meighen.

Since the 1911 election, the country had been governed by the Conservatives, first under the leadership of Prime Minister Robert Borden, and then under Prime Minister Arthur Meighen.

Meighen was replaced as Tory leader by R. B.

He was also called upon to lead commissions into the causes for the collapse of the Farmer's Bank of York, Upper Canada and to investigate the worth of the Canadian Northern Railway prior to its takeover by the government of Sir Arthur Meighen.

Meighen was outraged by King's move, and demanded that King resign from the Prime Minister's office.

The third-place Conservative Party, led by Arthur Meighen, thus became the Official Opposition.

However, some Canadians, most notably former Conservative prime minister Arthur Meighen were furious-they argued that by signing this agreement, Canada was not only abandoning Britain but was effectively placing itself under the control of the United States.

Forsey was a supporter of the Conservative Party led by Arthur Meighen until he went to Balliol College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship during which he was converted to democratic socialism.

These three in turn all left in approximately 2002 and 2003, and were replaced by Paul West ( trombone ) Matt Sanders ( trumpet ) and Chris Meighen ( bass ).

However, a few days later on July 1, 1926, the new Meighen minority government was defeated on a matter of confidence ( by one vote ).

Although many Conservatives privately preferred an election, Meighen believed he was bound by honour and convention to accept Byng's invitation.

Meighen subsequently requested a dissolution of parliament, which was granted by Byng, and an election was called.

King also painted the matter as one relating to democracy, insisting that the Governor General had had no right to refuse his prime minister's advice, while Meighen denounced King's actions as " a shameless attempt to hang onto power and avoid imminent defeat by the people's elected representatives.

Meighen was vice-chair of the Senate Committee on National Defence and Security until February 2007 when he and the chair of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, fellow moderate Tory Hugh Segal, were instructed to resign their positions by the Prime Minister's Office.

He was elected with the support of defiant Liberal senators after moderate Conservative Senator Michael Meighen resigned his position at the direction of the Prime Minister's Office who reportedly wished to install a more ideologically conservative co-chair.

In the 1925 federal election, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberal Party of Canada won fewer seats in the Canadian House of Commons than the Conservative Party of Arthur Meighen.

Conversely, the Ontario Liberal Party and Premier of Ontario, Mitchell Hepburn, was opposed to King's conscription stance, and decided to put their support behind Meighen in the by-election.

He was selected by the Liberal Party of Canada to run against Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Meighen in the federal election of 1926.

He became one of Quebec's leading lawyers and was so highly regarded that he was offered a position in the Cabinet of the Conservative Prime Minister Arthur Meighen in 1926 and was offered a seat as a justice in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Meighen stepped down as Tory leader, and Bennett became the party's leader in 1927 at the first Conservative leadership convention.

King and Conservative leader Arthur Meighen sparred constantly and bitterly in Commons debates.

Instead Byng called upon the Conservative Party leader, Arthur Meighen, to form a government.

During the Chanak Crisis of 1922, King refused to support the British without first consulting Parliament, while the Conservative leader, Arthur Meighen, supported Britain.

In 1942, new Conservative Party leader Arthur Meighen sought to enter the Canadian House of Commons through a by-election in York South.

Before these efforts could come to fruition, the federal government of Conservative Arthur Meighen disclosed allegations of irregularities in the management of the some of the UGG's elevators.

Even in Toronto, a strongly pro-conscription region, Conservative Arthur Meighen was defeated in a by-election after promising to help introduce conscription.

Hepburn openly supported King's rival, Conservative leader Arthur Meighen in a 1942 York South by-election, and seemed to be calling for the defeat of King.

Meighen lost his seat, and Guthrie served as Leader of the Opposition and interim leader of the Conservative Party for a full year.

Instead he asked Conservative Leader, Arthur Meighen to form a government.

He served as Minister of Finance under both Sir Robert Borden and Arthur Meighen until the Conservative Party's defeat in the 1921 general election.