Background
Argue was born in Ireland, and received a grammar school education.
Argue was born in Ireland, and received a grammar school education.
He worked as a farmer after moving in Manitoba, and served for fifteen years as a local reeve and councillor. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1899 provincial election, defeating Liberal incumbent Thomas Dickey by seventy-seven votes in the Avondale constituency. He was re-elected in the campaigns of 1903, 1907 and 1910, and did not seek re-election in 1914.
He later moved to Vancouver, where he died in 1927.
He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1899 to 1914, as a member of the Conservative Party.
