{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]] | name = John Campbell Elliott | image = Hon. J.C. Elliott, Minister of Public Works (Portrait).jpg | caption = Elliott in 1927 | image_size = | office1 = [[Senate of Canada|Canadian Senator]] <br />from [[Ontario]] | term_start1 = 1940 | term_end1 = 1941 | appointer1 = [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | riding2 = [[Middlesex West]] | parliament2 = Canadian | term_start2 = 1925 | term_end2 = 1940 | predecessor2 = [[John Alexander Stewart (politician)|John Alexander Stewart]] | successor2 = [[William Samuel Murphy]] | office3 = [[Member of Provincial Parliament (Ontario)|Ontario MPP]] | term_start3 = 1908 | term_end3 = 1919 | predecessor3 = [[Duncan Campbell Ross]] | successor3 = [[John Giles Lethbridge]] | constituency3 = [[Middlesex West (provincial electoral district)|Middlesex West]] | party = [[Ontario Liberal Party|Liberal]] | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1872|8|25}} | birth_place = [[Ekfrid, Ontario]], Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1941|12|20|1872|8|25}} | death_place = [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada | occupation = Lawyer | relations = | spouse = | education = [[Trinity College, Toronto]] <br> [[Osgoode Hall Law School]] | children = }} '''John Campbell Elliott''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (25 August 1872 – 20 December 1941) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[lawyer]] and politician.
== Early life == He was born in [[Ekfrid, Ontario]], the son of George Elliott and Jane Campbell. He was educated at the [[University of Trinity College]] in the [[University of Toronto]], studied law at [[Osgoode Hall]] and was called to the bar in 1896.
== Career == J. C. Elliott was first elected to the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario]] in 1908 as the [[Member of the Legislative Assembly]] (MLA) for the [[London, Ontario]] area [[electoral district (Canada)|riding]] of [[Middlesex West (provincial electoral district)|Middlesex West]] and a member of the [[Ontario Liberal Party]]. The Liberals were out of government for the entire time Elliott was an MLA. In 1919, he ran in the [[1919 Ontario Liberal Party leadership election|first Ontario Liberal Party leadership convention]], coming in a poor third, and left provincial politics shortly afterwards.
Elliott moved to federal politics a few years later winning a seat in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] in the [[1925 Canadian federal election|1925 federal election]] as the [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for the riding of [[Middlesex West]]. In March 1926, he was appointed to the [[Canadian Cabinet]] by [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]] as Minister of Labour. In September of that year, he was moved to the position of [[Minister of Public Works (Canada)|Minister of Public Works]], and remained in that portfolio until the Liberal government's defeat in the [[1930 Canadian federal election|1930 election]].
Elliott was personally re-elected and sat on the [[parliamentary opposition|Opposition]] benches until the Liberals returned to power in the [[1935 Canadian federal election|1935 election]]. Elliott was returned to Cabinet, this time as [[Canadian Postmaster-General|Postmaster-General]]. In 1940, he was appointed to the [[Senate of Canada]] where he sat until his death the next year.{{fact|date=June 2025}}
== Personal life == J.C. Elliott was a member of a Baptist church, never married and had no issue. Elliott was a District Deputy in the [[Freemason|Masonic]] Order.{{fact|date=June 2025}}
==External links== *{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=6953}} *{{Ontario MPP biography|id=john-campbell-elliott}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929095438/http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=3853 ''A cyclopædia of Canadian biography : brief biographies of persons ...'', HW Charlesworth (1919)]
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