James Cranswick Tory
James Cranswick Tory | |
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Portrait of J.C. Tory in 1914 | |
| 14th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia | |
| In office September 14, 1925 – November 19, 1930 | |
| Monarch | George V |
| Governors General | The Viscount Byng of Vimy The Viscount Willingdon |
| Premier | Edgar Nelson Rhodes Gordon Sidney Harrington |
| Preceded by | James Robson Douglas |
| Succeeded by | Frank Stanfield |
| MLA for Guysborough County | |
| In office June 14, 1911 – June 25, 1925 Serving with James F. Ellis, Clarence W. Anderson | |
| Preceded by | James F. Ellis William Whitman |
| Succeeded by | Simon Osborn Giffin Howard Amos Rice |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 24, 1862 Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia |
| Died | June 26, 1944 (aged 81) Halifax, Nova Scotia |
| Party | Liberal |
| Spouse |
Caroline Whitman (m. 1894) |
| Relations | Henry Marshall Tory (brother) Charles Tory Bruce (nephew) |
| Parent(s) | Robert Kirk Tory Anorah Fergusson |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Profession | Politician |
James Cranswick Tory (October 24, 1862 – June 26, 1944) was a Nova Scotian businessman and politician. He was born in 1862 to Robert Kirk Tory and Anorah Ferguson in Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia and later lived in the village of Guysborough, attending school there. He later moved to Montreal and attended McGill University. Tory joined the Sun Life Assurance Company as an insurance agent in 1891 and quickly moved through up the ranks of the company. He worked the West Indies, Michigan, and later at head office in Montreal, where he held one of the highest executive positions in the company.
Tory served as a Liberal MLA for Guysborough County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1911 to 1925. He was a minister without portfolio in the province's Executive Council from 1921 to 1925. In 1923, he was asked to succeed George Henry Murray as Premier of Nova Scotia, but declined. Tory was appointed the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and served from 1925 to 1930. He died in Halifax on the 26 June, 1944.
Tory's younger brothers were Henry Marshall Tory, founding president of the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada, and John Alexander Tory Sr. (1869–1950), a fellow director at Sun Life. In 1894, he married Caroline Whitman of Canso; they had no children.