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Rt. Hon. Ellen Louks Fairclough (born January 28 1905) was the first female member of the Canadian Cabinet.Fairclough was a chartered accountant by training and ran an accounting firm prior to entering politics. She was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in a 1950 by-election afer being defeated in the 1949 Canadian election. She represented Hamilton West for the Progressive Conservatives until she lost her seat in the 1963 Canadian election. As a Member of Parliament she advocated women's rights including equal pay for equal work.
When the Tories took power as a result of the 1957 Canadian election, Diefenbaker appointed her to the position of Secretary of State for Canada. In 1958 she became Minister of Citizenship and Immigration and then from 1962 until her defeat in 1963 she was Postmaster General.
Fairclough was also the first female Acting Prime Minister of Canada from February 19 to February 20, 1958.
She was granted the rare hounour of being sworn into the Queen's Privy Council for Canada with the title Right Honourable in 1992, one of very few people who had been neither Prime Minister of Canada, Governor General, nor Chief Justice of Canada to have the title. In 1995 she published her memoirs, Saturday's Child: Memoirs of Canada's First Female Cabinet Minister.
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