Norman McLeod Rogers

The Honourable Norman McLeod Rogers PC MP
Minister of National Defence
In office September 19, 1939 – June 10, 1940
Prime Minister	W. L. Mackenzie King
Preceded by	Ian Alistair Mackenzie
Succeeded by	Charles Power
Minister of Labour
In office October 23, 1935 – September 18, 1939
Prime Minister	W. L. Mackenzie King
Preceded by	Wesley Ashton Gordon
Succeeded by	Norman Alexander McLarty
Member of Parliament for Kingston City
In office October 14, 1935 – June 10, 1940
Preceded by	Arthur Edward Ross
Succeeded by	Angus Lewis Macdonald
Personal details
Born	(1894-07-25)July 25, 1894 Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
Died	June 10, 1940(1940-06-10) (aged 45) near Newtonville, Ontario, Canada
Political party	Liberal
Spouse	Mary Francis Parker Kierstead ​ ​ (m. 1924)​
Children	2
Military service
Allegiance	Canada
Branch/service	Canadian Expeditionary Force
Years of service	1914–1918
Rank	Lieutenant

Norman McLeod Rogers

Rogers was private secretary to King from 1927 to 1929, then worked as a professor at Queen's University in Kingston. He was elected to the Parliament in 1935, and served under King as Minister of Labour until 1939, and then Minister of National Defence from 1939 until his death in 1940.

Rogers died in a plane crash on June 10, 1940, near

Prime Minister King took the death of Rogers extremely hard. Rogers was a key Cabinet minister, and close advisor, and Canada was in the midst of World War II. The two men were friendly on a personal basis, and King may have been grooming Rogers to become his successor as prime minister.^[3]

Bibliography

• W. A. M., 'Obituary: Norman McLeod Rogers, 1894–1940', Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne d'Economique et de Science politique, vol. 6, no. 3 (August, 1940), pp. 476–478

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