Education
He attended and graduated from Toronto"s Upper Canada College.
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George Geary
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Career
During his term in office he announced plans for a new Harbor board. Geary said, "We have a magnificent harbor but we have failed miserably to avail ourselves of nature"s generosity. We have barely sufficient wharfage to accommodate the lake traffic today, to say nothing of the future.
We have been to neglectful of our shipping and harbor interests."
Born August 12, 1873 in Strathroy, Ontario, the Geary family moved to Sarnia, Ontario when Geary was age one.
A graduate of the University of Toronto law school in 1896, he soon became interested in politics. In 1904 he became a school trustee in Ward 4.
Then an alderman from 1905 to 1907. From there he became counsel for the Ontario Government.
Then in 1908 he ran for mayor and lost to Joseph Oliver.
Geary was elected Mayor in 1910, re-elected in 1911 and acclaimed in 1912. He resigned in October 1912 in order to accept a position as the City of Toronto"s legal counsel Geary enlisted in the Canadian Army. on January 7, 1915.
He and the Bennett government were defeated in the 1935 federal election.
Geary attempted to regain a seat in the 1940 federal election but was defeated by Arthur Roebuck. He died in Toronto on April 30, 1954, aged 80.
He was buried in the Saint James Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario.
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Membership
In 1925 he was elected as a member of parliament as a Conservative from the riding Toronto South and remained an Member of Parliament until 1935. In 1935 he briefly served as the Minister of Justice in the Cabinet of Rifle Brigade Bennett and accordingly became a member of the Queen"s Privy Council for Canada. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.
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Political Party
Conservative