Rupert David Ramsay was a Canadian politician who served as the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1949.
11 Facts About Rupert Ramsay
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Rupert Ramsay led the Progressive Conservative Party in two elections: the 1944 Saskatchewan general election and the 1948 Saskatchewan general election.
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Rupert Ramsay announced his resignation from the leadership post in 1948 and officially resigned in 1949, after which he continued to work at the University of Saskatchewan until his death in 1962.
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Rupert Ramsay was born in 1899 in Toronto, Ontario, and moved in 1905 to Bladworth, Saskatchewan with his father, who specialized in raising Clydesdale horses and farming seed grains.
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Rupert Ramsay graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a Bachelor's of Science and Arts degree in 1929.
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Rupert Ramsay refused to discuss Tucker's proposed formal coalition of the Liberal and Progressive Conservative campaigns.
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Rupert Ramsay ran on a new platform that promised a wheat stabilization fund to provide security for farm income, and cooperation with the federal government as they developed a national universal healthcare plan.
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Rupert Ramsay's favoured candidate, Alvin Hamilton, was elected to replace him on October 12,1949.
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Rupert Ramsay then served as the Director of the University of Saskatchewan's Agricultural Extension Department until his death in 1962.
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Rupert Ramsay advocated for a farmers' market in the suburbs of Saskatoon.
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Rupert Ramsay helped to establish the University of Saskatchewan's Farm and Home Week and its Seed Fair, and contributed to revisions of the Guide for Farm Practice in Saskatchewan.