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Gideon Robertson
Canadian politician
Gideon Decker Robertson, PC (August 26, 1874 – August 25, 1933) was a Canadian Senator and Canadian Cabinet minister.
Robertson was a telegrapher by profession and had links with conservatives in the labour movement. In January 1917, he was appointed to the Senate as a Conservative as a means of bringing in labour representation during the First World War. When Prime Minister Sir Robert Borden formed a Unionist government in October as a means of creating a national government for the war effort, he included Robertson in the cabinet, making him minister without portfolio despite not having a seat in the House of Commons, to represent organised labour.