Wellington Willoughby

William Bartley Willoughby MLA

Leader of the Opposition
In office 1912–1917
Preceded by	Frederick Haultain
Succeeded by	Donald Maclean
Personal details
Political party	Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Wellington Bartley Willoughby, PC (August 10, 1859 – August 1, 1932) was a Canadian politician and lawyer.

He ran for a seat in the Dominion House of Commons for the Conservative Party in the 1895 election, but an unofficial Tory, William Stubbs backed by the Orange Order such as its Grand Master N.C. Wallace and McCarthyite leader Dalton McCarthy undermined his campaign, though he was also an Orangeman.

Willoughby served as leader of the Saskatchewan Conservative Party and leader of the opposition from 1912 to 1917 and was Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (MLA) for the city of Moose Jaw.

He resigned from the Saskatchewan legislature shortly after his re-election in the 1917 election in order to accept an appointment to the Canadian Senate by Sir Robert Borden.

In 1929, the leader of the federal Conservative Party, Richard Bennett, appointed Willoughby to the position of Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. When Bennett became Prime Minister of Canada following the 1930 federal election, Willoughby became Government Leader in the Senate and a minister without portfolio in the Canadian Cabinet. Willougby died in office in 1932.

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Party political offices
Preceded by New position	Leader of the Conservative Party of Saskatchewan 1912–1917	Succeeded by Donald Maclean
Government offices
Preceded by William Benjamin Ross	Leader of the Opposition in the Senate of Canada 1926–1929	Succeeded by Raoul Dandurand
Preceded by Raoul Dandurand	Leader of the Government in the Senate of Canada 1930-1932	Succeeded by Arthur Meighen

Leaders of the Government in the Senate

Campbell Letellier de Saint-Just Scott Campbell Abbott Bowell Mowat Mills Scott Cartwright Lougheed Dandurand Ross Dandurand Willoughby Meighen Dandurand King Robertson Macdonald Haig Aseltine Brooks Macdonald Connolly Martin Perrault Flynn Perrault Olson MacEachen Roblin Murray Fairbairn Graham Boudreau Carstairs Austin LeBreton Carignan

Government leaders listed in italics were not cabinet ministers.

Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan

Party leaders	Haultain (NWT) ¤ Willoughby McLean Anderson Diefenbaker Keown Ramsay Hamilton Pederson Nasserden Collver Devine Swenson Boyd Dennis Swenson

Leadership elections	1942 1949 1958 1970 1973 1979 1994

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