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Ex-House Leader Hon. R. B. Hanson Dies After IllnessFREDERICTON July 14 (CP— Hon. Richard Burpee Hanson, lawyer-politician who argued every inch of the way in court or commons, died in hospital here Wednesday after a two weeks’ illness. He was 69.As house leader he guided Progressive Conservative parliamentary strategy- for three critical war years after the Liberal sweep of 1940 left his party numerically weak.An imposing figure in his front opposition bench, Mr. Hanson always dressed in the semi-formal manner of an earlier generation. He always wore wing-collars, frequently used r gray waistcoat under a black cutaway and waved his black-ribboned glasses to emphasize a point.Mr. Hanson was born at Bocabec, N.B., March 20, 1879. Hospital authorities did not immediately disclose the nature of his fatal illness.When the late B. J- Manicn and his Conservative forces were overwhelmingly defeated in the 1940 general election, Mr, Hanson, one of two former ministers of the last cabinet of the late Viscount Bennett left In the house, assumed the parliamentary leadership. |in 1943 John Bfaeken assumed national, leadership of the party. Mr. Bracken did not enter the; commons until after the 1945 general election and in the mean-; time the boose leadership was as-; sumed by the then-youthful Gor-j don Gray don, member for Pesl in. Ontario.But the veteran Mr. Hanson re-; mained as Mr. Graydon’s deskmate; and by tacit agreement was a sort of second leader of the opposition.
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Winnipeg Free Press
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA
Wed, Jul 14, 1948
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