Robert Davidson | |
Birthname: | Robert Greig Davidson |
Birth Date: | 1875 7, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada |
Spouse: | Anna Smillie m. 18 October 1899 |
Riding: | Stanstead |
Predecessor: | John Thomas Hackett |
Successor: | Joseph-Armand Choquette |
Term Start: | October 1935 |
Term End: | August 1943 |
Profession: | farmer |
Party: | Liberal |
Robert Greig Davidson (21 July 1875 - 3 August 1948) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec and became a farmer.
Davidson attended high school in Sherbrooke and then St. Charles Borromeo College in Charlesbourg. He became a trustee of Stanstead Wesleyan College and director of the Western Townships Agricultural Association.[1]
He was first elected to Parliament at the Stanstead riding in the 1935 general election. He was re-elected for a second term in 1940, but this was declared void in May 1943. Davidson lost the resulting by-election on 9 August 1943 to Joseph-Armand Choquette.