Background
Black was the son of J. Hiram Black and Mary Elizabeth "Libbie" Smith and was educated at Amherst College and Mount Allison University.
Black was the son of J. Hiram Black and Mary Elizabeth "Libbie" Smith and was educated at Amherst College and Mount Allison University.
Black served in both the Canadian House of Commons and the Nova Scotia House of Assembly. He was re-elected as a Progressive Conservative in 1945 and again in 1949. He was appointed Nova Scotia"s Minister of Highways.
He died in Amherst at the age of 83.
Conservative Party of Canada, Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1940 as a Member of the coalition National Government to represent the riding of Cumberland. He was a member of the Special Committee on Reconstruction and Re-establishment, during the 19th Canadian parliament. Prior to his federal political experience, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia in 1925 as a Member of the Conservative Party of Nova Scotia to represent the electoral district of Cumberland County.