Albert Hickman

Albert Hickman

Albert Edgar Hickman (August 2, 1875February 9, 1943) born in Grand Bank, Newfoundland was Newfoundland's seventeenth Prime Minister who has the distinction of having served the shortest term of any Prime Minister.

Hickman, a politician and businessman, served as Prime Minister of Newfoundland for 33 days in 1924 as leader of a caretaker administration after the successive collapses of the Liberal Reform Party governments of Prime Ministers Sir Richard Squires and William Warren. The governor asked Hickman to form an administration to govern the province when the government of William Warren was defeated in a Motion of No Confidence. Hickman invited members of various former members of the Liberal Reform Party as well as members of other parties into his government which he called the Liberal-Progressive Party. His new party was defeated in the June 9 election by former supporters of Warren who joined with the conservative opposition to form the Liberal-Conservative Progressive Party. Hickman served as Leader of the Opposition until he retired from politics in 1928 by which time his party had degenerated and a new Liberal Party had emerged led by Squires.

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* [http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~melbaker/1919-28.htm Newfoundland in the 1920s]


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