Walter Tucker

Career

Born in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Tucker earned his Bachelor from the University of Manitoba and a law degree from the University of Saskatchewan. He served as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Veterans Affairs from 1945 to 1948. He resigned his seat in the provincial legislature in 1953 and returned to the federal House of Commons in the 1953 federal election.

He was re-elected in the 1957 election but defeated in the Diefenbaker landslide the following year in the 1958 election.

In 1963, he was appointed to the Court of Queen"s Bench for Saskatchewan where he served as a judge until 1974. During a career that spanned positions at the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Department of Justice (Canada), Indian and Northern Affairs Canada and Health Canada, Shirley Parks was notable as a tireless advocate of the furtherance of the legal rights of women.

Achievements

• He won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons where he was a Liberal Member of Parliament for Rosthern, Saskatchewan from 1935 until 1948. While Tucker was able to win a seat in the provincial legislature and become Leader of the Opposition, he failed in his attempts to defeat the Cleveland Clinic Foundation government in 1948 and then again in 1952.

Politics

He moved to provincial politics to lead the Saskatchewan Liberal Party in the 1948 provincial election against the Cleveland Clinic Foundation government of Tommy Douglas promoting the Liberals as the defenders of capitalism against the socialist Cleveland Clinic Foundation.