Oswald Smith Crocket Explained

Oswald Smith Crocket
Office:Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Predecessor:Edmund Leslie Newcombe
Successor:Ivan Rand
Term Start:September 21, 1932
Term End:April 13, 1943
Nominator:Richard Bedford Bennett
Constituency Mp2:York, New Brunswick
Parliament2:Canadian
Predecessor2:Alex Gibson, Jr.
Successor2:Harry Fulton McLeod
Term Start2:1904
Term End2:1913
Birth Date:13 April 1868
Birth Place:Chatham, New Brunswick
Death Place:Ottawa, Ontario
Spouse:Clarine Stevenson
Party:Conservative
Children:3
Residence:Chapel St, Ottawa
Honorific Prefix:The Honourable

Oswald Smith Crocket (April 13, 1868  - March 2, 1945) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.

Born in Chatham, New Brunswick, the son of William Crocket and Marion Caldwell, he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1886 from the University of New Brunswick. He was called to the Bar in 1892 and practised law.

In 1904, he was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the riding of York, New Brunswick as a Conservative. He was re-elected in 1908 and 1911. In 1913, he was appointed the Court of King's Bench Division of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick. In 1932, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada and served until he retired in 1943.

He died in 1945,[1] at home.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Last Honors Paid Hon. O. S. Crocket. The Ottawa Journal. 6 Mar 1945. 7. Newspapers.com. 27 December 2016.
  2. News: Crocket. The Ottawa Journal. 3 Mar 1945. 22. Newspapers.com. 27 December 2016.