Charles Doherty
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Charles Joseph Doherty, PC (May 11, 1855 - July 28, 1931) was a Canadian politician and jurist.
Doherty was a lawyer and also taught civil and International law at McGill University prior to being appointed a judge on the Quebec Superior Court from 1891 until 1906. He entered politics in the 1908 federal election winning a seat in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative. When the Tories won the 1911 election, the new Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, brought Doherty into the Canadian Cabinet as Minister of Justice. At the end of World War I, Doherty was one of the Canadian delegates to the Versailles Peace Conference, and served as Canadian delegate to the League of Nations from 1920 to 1922. Doherty remained Minister of Justice in the government of Arthur Meighen until its defeat in 1921.
Doherty also played a leading role in the creation of the Canadian Bar Association in 1912 and served as its president in 1914. He was appointed to the Imperial Privy Council in 1921 allowing him to use the Title of The Right Honourable.
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