Jack Davis (Canadian politician)
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The Honourable Jack Davis PC |
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| Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for North Vancouver-Seymour |
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In office December 11, 1975 – March 27, 1991 |
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| Preceded by | Colin Gabelmann |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Jarvis |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Capilano Coast—Capilano (1962-1968) |
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In office September 27, 1962 – May 9, 1974 |
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| Preceded by | William H. Payne |
| Succeeded by | Ron Huntington |
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John Davis July 31, 1916 Kamloops General Hospital, British Columbia, Canada |
| Died | March 27, 1991 (aged 74) |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Engineering |
John (Jack) Davis, PC (July 31, 1916 – March 27, 1991) was a Canadian politician from British Columbia who was elected both federally and provincially.
Born in Kamloops General Hospital, in Kamloops, British Columbia, Davis grew up in Tranquille Valley on a 160-acre (0.65 km2) homestead where he attended school in a one-room log cabin. The Davis family moved into Kamloops so that Davis could attend Grade 8 at Kamloops High School; he was elected student council president, as was his sister Ethel Davis Moore. Jack won provincial scholarships in junior and senior matriculation, the latter with the highest marks in B.C. Jack attended the University of British Columbia, where he was president of the Engineers and the Men's Undergraduate Society, and a member of U.B.C. Thunderbird Basketball team, which won the Canadian Men's Senior Championship. He graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science (chemical engineering) and was chosen a Rhodes Scholar from British Columbia in 1939.
His attendance at St John's College, Oxford University, was interrupted by the Second World War. Davis was the only engineer on a Canadian research team at a McGill University developing a new process for manufacturing RDX. Writing up the RDX process gave Jack his PhD in Science in 1942.
In 1962, Davis was elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the riding of Coast—Capilano, a riding which stretched from Deep Cove in the District of North Vancouver to Powell River and Pemberton. A member of the then-minority Liberal Party of Canada, he was re-elected in the following year in the train of the national Liberal victory and was appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson. Davis was re-elected in the Canadian federal elections of 1965 and 1968 (now in the riding of Capilano (electoral district) and 1972. A cabinet minister in the government of Pierre Elliot Trudeau, he was Minister without Portfolio, Minister of Fisheries, Minister of Fisheries and Forestry, and the first Minister of the Environment in the English-speaking world. He was defeated in the Canadian federal election of 1974.
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