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John Joseph Horgan (August 7, 1959 – November 12, 2024) was a Canadian politician and diplomat who served the ambassador of Canada to Germany from 2023 to 2024 and the 36th premier of British Columbia from 2017 to 2022.
The first premier was John Foster McCreight, who was inaugurated in 1871. Joseph Martin spent the shortest time in office, at 106 days. At over twenty years, W. A. C. Bennett spent the longest time in office and is the only premier to serve in more than five parliaments. The incumbent premier is David Eby, who was sworn in on November 18, 2022.
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John Robson Hon. John Robson 9th Premier of British Columbia In office 2 August 1889 – 29 June 1892 Monarch Victoria Lieutenant Governor Hugh Nelson Preceded by Alexander Edmund Batson Davie Succeeded by Theodore Davie Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia In office 13 June 1890 – 29 June 1892 Serving with Joseph Mason, Samuel Augustus Rogers, Ithiel Nason Preceded by ...
Byron Ingemar "Boss" Johnson (born Björn Ingimar Jónsson; December 10, 1890 – January 12, 1964), served as the 24th premier of British Columbia, from 1947 to 1952.To his contemporaries he was often referred to by his nickname, Boss Johnson, which had nothing to do with his personality, but was an anglicization of the Icelandic "Bjossi", which is a diminutive form of his birth-name of Bjorn ...
The Horgan ministry was the combined Cabinet (formally the Executive Council of British Columbia) that governed British Columbia from July 18, 2017, to November 18, 2022. It was chaired by the 36th premier of British Columbia, John Horgan.
Generally, the premier selects MLAs from their party to be appointed ministers of the Crown by the Lieutenant Governor. Cabinet appointees are designated ministers in charge of government ministries; they are responsible for the day-to-day activities of individual government ministries such as the Ministry of Forests, and for proposing new laws ...
The incumbent Pattullo ministry, a single-party Liberal government, lost its majority in the Legislature, but Premier Duff Pattullo resisted calls to form a coalition. [1] In response, Liberal delegates voted to establish a coalition government, and elected John Hart , who supported a coalition, as their new leader. [ 2 ]