List of Canadian expatriates in foreign political positions

This page lists Canadians (those born in Canada or who have previously held Canadian Citizenship) who have served in political positions outside of Canada. When an individual has held multiple political offices (such as Bonar Law) the higher office attained is listed. This list does not include individuals who served in political offices which were later absorbed into Canadian Confederation, such as those who served in the Dominion of Newfoundland.

Head of State

Indicates birth or residence in a pre-Confederated colony or dominion.

Individual	Position	Country	Years	Notes
Frederick Broome	Governor of Trinidad and Tobago	Trinidad and Tobago	1891–1897	Born in Canada
Ted Leather	Governor of Bermuda	Bermuda	1973–1977	Born in Toronto, Ontario
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga	President of Latvia	Latvia	1999–2007	Arrived in Canada as a refugee in the 1950s. Renounced her Canadian Citizenship upon being elected President of Latvia.

Head of Government

Individual	Position	Country	Years	Notes
Bonar Law	Prime Minister of the United Kingdom	United Kingdom	1922–1923	Born in Kingston, New Brunswick
Paula Cox	Premier of Bermuda	Bermuda	2010–2012	Born in Canada

Leader of a State or Province

Individual	Position	Country	Years	Notes
Jacob Dolson Cox	Governor of Ohio	United States	1866–1868	Born in Montreal, Quebec (to American parents)
Frank Bell	Governor of Nevada	United States	1890–1891	Born in Toronto, Ontario
Aram J. Pothier	Governor of Rhode Island	United States	1909–1915 1925–1928	Born in Quebec
Oswald West	Governor of Oregon	United States	1911–1915	Born in Guelph, Ontario
Frank Henry Cooney	Governor of Montana	United States	1933–1935	Born in Norwood, Ontario
Stan Stephens	Governor of Montana	United States	1989–1993	Born in Calgary, Alberta
Leneen Forde	Governor of Queensland	Australia	1992–1997	Born in Ottawa, Ontario
Jennifer Granholm	Governor of Michigan	United States	2003–2011	Born in Vancouver, British Columbia

Member of a federal legislature

Australia

Individual	Position	State	Years	Notes
Simon Fraser	Senate	Victoria	1901–1913	Born in Pictou, Nova Scotia
Doug Cash	House of Representatives	Western Australia	1958–1961	Born in Manitoba
Nigel Bowen	House of Representatives	New South Wales	1964–1973	Born in Summerland, British Columbia
Larissa Waters	Senate	Queensland	2011–2017	Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Italy

Individual	Position	Country	Years	Notes
Gino Bucchino	Member of the Chamber of Deputies	Italy	2006–present	Naturalized Canadian. Represents Italians in North America

New Zealand

Individual	Position	Country	Years	Notes
George Armstrong	Member of Parliament	New Zealand	1866–1870	Born in Nova Scotia

United Kingdom

Individual	Position	Country	Years	Notes
George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1891–1921
Edward Blake	Member of Parliament	United Kingdom	1892–1906	Born in Upper Canada. Also served as Premier of Ontario and Canadian federal MP
Donald Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1897–1914	Born in Scotland. Also served as a Canadian Member of Parliament
Arthur Haliburton, 1st Baron Haliburton	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1898–1907	Born in Nova Scotia
Charles Ramsay Devlin	Member of Parliament	United Kingdom	1903–1906	Born in Lower Canada. Also served in Canada.
J. Allen Baker	Member of Parliament	United Kingdom	1905–1918	Born in Trenton, Ontario
Thomas Shaughnessy, 1st Baron Shaughnessy	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1916–1923	Born in the United States. Canadian Railroad Baron
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook	Member of Parliament, Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1910–1916, 1917–1964	Canadian Press Baron, served in Winston Churchill's war cabinet
Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1917–1938	Canadian Press Baron, while elevator to the peerage, he never formally took his seat in the house of lords.
Edward Morris, 1st Baron Morris	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1918–1935	former Prime Minister of Newfoundland
John Elsdale Molson	Member of Parliament	United Kingdom	1918–1923	Born in Canada
William Pirrie, 1st Viscount Pirrie	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1921–1924	Born in Quebec
Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker	Member of Parliament, Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1929–1931, 1936–1970, 1970-1982	Born in England to a Canadian-born father
Hugh Molson, Baron Molson	Member of Parliament, Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1931–1935, 1939–1961, 1961–1991
Beverley Baxter	Member of Parliament	United Kingdom	1935–1964	Born in Toronto
Michael William Morris, 2nd Baron Morris	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1935–1975	Son of Edward Morris, inherited title
R. B. Bennett	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1941–1947	former Prime Minister of Canada
Sir Max Aitken, 2nd Baronet	Member of Parliament	United Kingdom	1945–1950	Born in Montreal to Lord Beaverbrook. Disclaimed his father's title.
William Aitken	Member of Parliament	United Kingdom	1950–1964	Born in Nova Scotia
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1964–1976	Born in Toronto. Renounced his Canadian Citizenship to take his seat.
Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1976–1999	Son of Roy Thomson, did not bother taking his seat in the House of Lords.
Oliver Peter St John, 9th Earl of Orkney	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	1998–1999	Lives in Manitoba. Removed by the House of Lords Act 1999
Conrad Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour	Member of the House of Lords	United Kingdom	2001–present	Born in Canada, renounced his Canadian Citizenship to become a British Lord. Currently on leave of absence.

United States

Individual	Position	State	Years	Notes
Charles Wentworth Upham	Representative	Massachusetts	1853–1855	Born in Saint John, New Brunswick
James Nesmith	Senator Representative	Oregon	1861–1867 1873–1875	Born in New Brunswick (to American parents)
John F. Farnsworth	Representative	Illinois	1863–1873	Born in Eaton, Canada (possibly Cookshire-Eaton, Quebec)
John Fox	Representative	New York	1867–1871	Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick
James H. Platt Jr.	Representative	Virginia	1867–1871	Born in Saint John, New Brunswick
John M. Davy	Representative	New York	1875–1877	Born in Ottawa, Ontario
Andrew Williams	Representative	New York	1875–1877	Born in Ormstown, Quebec
Jacob Dolson Cox	Representative	Ohio	1877–1879	Born in Montreal, Quebec (to American parents)
David H. Armstrong	Senator	Missouri	1877–1879	Born in Nova Scotia
William W. Grout	Representative	Vermont	1881–1883 1885–1901	Born in Compton, Quebec (to American parents)
James Henry McLean	Representative	Missouri	1882–1883	Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, immigrated to Nova Scotia during his youth before relocating to the United States.
Isaac Stephenson	Representative Senator	Wisconsin	1883–1889 1907–1915	Born in Yorkton, New Brunswick
Jacob Harold Gallinger	Representative Senator	New Hampshire	1885–1889 1891–1918	Born in Cornwall, Ontario
John L. MacDonald	Representative	Minnesota	1887–1889	Born in Glasgow, Scotland, immigrated to Nova Scotia during his youth before relocating to the United States.
William James Connell	Representative	Nebraska	1889–1891	Born in Cowansville, Quebec
James McMillan	Senator	Michigan	1889–1902	Born in Hamilton, Ontario
Samuel M. Stephenson	Representative	Michigan	1889–1897	Born in Hartland, New Brunswick
David Archibald Harvey	Delegate	Oklahoma Territory	1890–1893	Born in Stewiacke, Nova Scotia
James Castle	Representative	Minnesota	1891–1893	Born in Shefford, Quebec
Jerry Simpson	Representative	Kansas	1891–1895 1897–1899	Born in Prince Edward Island
John L. Jolley	Representative	South Dakota	1891–1893	Born in Montreal, Quebec
James McCleary	Representative	Minnesota	1893–1907	Born in Ingersoll, Ontario
Arthur H. Taylor	Representative	Indiana	1893–1895	Born in Caledonia Springs, Ontario
William J. White	Representative	Ohio	1893–1895	Born in Rice Lake, Ontario
Samuel A. Cook	Representative	Wisconsin	1895–1901	Born in Ontario
Alexander M. Hardy	Representative	Indiana	1895–1897	Born in Simcoe, Ontario
Alexander Stewart	Representative	Wisconsin	1895–1901	Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick
William Connell	Representative	Pennsylvania	1897–1903 1904–1905	Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia
James A. Hughes	Representative	West Virginia	1901–1915 1927–1930	Born in Corunna, Ontario
Thomas Kearns	Senator	Utah	1901–1905	Born in Woodstock, Ontario
Joseph Millard	Senator	Nebraska	1901–1907	Born in Hamilton, Ontario
Bernard Shandon Rodey	Delegate	New Mexico Territory	1901–1905	Born in County Mayo, Ireland, immigrated to Sherbrooke, Quebec during his youth before relocating to the United States.
Philip P. Campbell	Representative	Kansas	1903–1923	Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
Alfred Lucking	Representative	Michigan	1903–1905	Born in Ingersoll, Ontario
Duncan E. McKinlay	Representative	California	1905–1911	Born in Orilla, Ontario
Archibald C. Hart	Representative	New Jersey	1912–1913 1913–1917	Born in Lennoxville, Quebec
Robert G. Bremner	Representative	New Jersey	1913–1914	Born in Reiss, Scotland, immigrated to Orangeville, Ontario during his youth before relocating to the United States.
Jacob Falconer	Representative	Washington	1913–1915	Born in Ontario
George M. Young	Representative	North Dakota	1913–1924	Born in Lakelet, Ontario
James H. Sinclair	Representative	North Dakota	1919–1935	Born in St. Marys, Ontario
William W. Chalmers	Representative	Ohio	1921–1923 1925–1931	Born in Strathroy, Ontario
Samuel D. Nicholson	Senator	Colorado	1921–1923	Born in Springfield, Prince Edward Island
Elliott W. Sproul	Representative	Illinois	1921–1931	Born in Apohaqui, New Brunswick
Daniel Sutherland	Delegate	Alaska Territory	1921–1931	Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
James J. Couzens	Senator	Michigan	1922–1936	Born in Chatham, Ontario
Charles Aubrey Eaton	Representative	New Jersey	1925–1953	Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia
Louis Monast	Representative	Rhode Island	1927–1929	Born in Marieville de Monior, Iberville, Quebec
William R. Eaton	Representative	Colorado	1929–1933	Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia
Felix Hebert	Senator	Rhode Island	1929–1935	Born in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec
J. Lincoln Newhall	Representative	Kentucky	1929–1931	Born in Hunterstown, Quebec
Michael J. Hart	Representative	Michigan	1931–1935	Born in Waterloo, Quebec
James E. Murray	Senator	Montana	1934–1961	Born in St. Thomas, Ontario
Albert G. Rutherford	Representative	Pennsylvania	1937–1941	Born in Watford, Ontario
Alphonse Roy	Representative	New Hampshire	1938–1939	Born in Saint-Simon, Montérégie, Quebec
George F. Rogers	Representative	New York	1945–1947	Born in Harwood, Ontario
Chase G. Woodhouse	Representative	Connecticut	1945–1947 1949–1951	Born in Victoria, British Columbia
John C. Mackie	Representative	Michigan	1965–1967	Born in Toronto, Ontario
Weston E. Vivian	Representative	Michigan	1965–1967	Born in the Dominion of Newfoundland
S. I. Hayakawa	Senator	California	1977–1983	Born in Vancouver, British Columbia
Geoff Davis	Representative	Kentucky	2005–2012	Born in Montreal, Quebec (to American parents)
Ted Cruz	Senator	Texas	2013–present	Born in Calgary, Alberta
Sean Patrick Maloney	Representative	New York	2013–present	Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec (to American parents)

Cabinet Ministers

Individual	Position	Country	Years	Notes
Jacob Dolson Cox	Secretary of the Interior	United States	1869–1870	Born in Montreal, Quebec (to American parents)
Franklin Knight Lane	Secretary of the Interior	United States	1913–1920	Born in DeSable, Prince Edward Island
Nigel Bowen	Minister for Education and Science Attorney-General for Australia Minister for Foreign Affairs	Australia	1966–1972	Born in Summerland, British Columbia
Gojko Šušak	Minister of Defense	Croatia	1991–1998	Naturalized Canadian
Gregory So	Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development	Hong Kong	2011–2017	Naturalized Canadian. Renounced Citizenship upon accepting his position.

Municipal

Individual	Position	Country	Years	Notes
Solomon Juneau	founding Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin	United States	1846	Born in Repentigny, Quebec to Metis parents
Damien Marchesseault	Mayor of Los Angeles, California	United States	1859–1860, 1861–1865, 1867	Born in Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu, Quebec
Ezra Millard	Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska	United States	1869–1871	Born in Ontario
Joseph Medill	Mayor of Chicago, Illinois	United States	1870–1872	Born in New Brunswick
Joseph Millard	Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska	United States	1872–1873	Born in Hamilton, Ontario
Woodford A. Yerxa	Mayor of Fargo, North Dakota	United States	1883–1885	born in St. John's, New Brunswick, Canada, March 1856
Charles Scott	Mayor of Fargo, North Dakota	United States	1886–1887	Born in Canada about 1850
Walter Lambert	Mayor of Wyandotte, Michigan	United States	1895–1897	Born in Amherstberg, Canada
Samuel Dickie	Mayor of Albion, Michigan	United States	1896–1897	Born in Burford Township, Ontario
Finlay Ross	Mayor of Wichita, Kansas	United States	1897–1900, 1905–1906	Born in Toronto, Ontario
Victor A. Alderson	Mayor of Wausau, Wisconsin	United States	1900	Born in Summerville, Ontario
Benjamin Franklin McLean	Mayor of Wichita, Kansas	United States	1901–1904, 1923–1924	Born in Canada
Owen McAleer	Mayor of Los Angeles, California	United States	1901–1904, 1923–1924	Born in Canada
J. Stitt Wilson	Mayor of Berkeley, California	United States	1911–1913	Born in Canada
James J. Couzens	Mayor of Detroit, Michigan	United States	1919–1922	Born in Chatham, Ontario
Hubert S. Amiot	Mayor of Wyandotte, Michigan	United States	1922–1927	Born in Windsor, Ontario
Jon Heese	Tsukuba city councilor	Japan	2008–present	Born in Manitoba. Renounced his citizenship to become a Japanese national

High Office in a Foreign Political Party

Individual	Party	Country	Years	Notes
Jack Kavanagh	Communist Party of Australia	Australia	1930s

Misc

Joe Juneau - Founder of the City of Juneau, Alaska - Born in Quebec
Abdullahi Afrah - Naturalized Canadian who led the Islamic Courts Union, attempting to take over the government of Somalia. May have served as Minister of Trade in 2007
Elie Vézina - Special United States Ambassador to Haiti. Born in Quebec

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