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Edmond Baird Ryckman

Edmond Baird Ryckman

Canadian politician

Edmond Baird Ryckman, PC (April 15, 1866 – January 11, 1934) was a Canadian politician.

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His father, E.B. Ryckman, was a Methodist minister. He was educated at Brantford Collegiate Institute, the University of Toronto, and Osgoode Hall.[1]

Born in Huntingdon,[1] Canada East, he was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the riding of Toronto East in the 1921 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1925, 1926, and 1930.

In 1926, he was the Minister of Public Works in the short lived cabinet of Arthur Meighen; when he accepted the post he resigned his position as president of the Dunlop Tire and Rubber Goods Company.[1]

From 1930 to 1933, he was the Minister of National Revenue.

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    "EDMUND B. RYCKMAN BARRISTER, IS DEAD; Former Canadian Minister of National Revenue and Member of Parliament Since 1921" (PDF). New York Times. 12 January 1934. Retrieved 6 April 2019.


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