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
| Individual | Position | Country | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga | Presidents 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 New Brunswick |
| Edwin Leather | Governor of Bermuda | Bermuda | 1973–1977 | Born in Ontario |
| Paula Cox | Premier of Bermuda | Bermuda | 2010-2012 | Born in Canada |
Leader of a State or Province
| Individual | Position | Country | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frank Bell | Governor of Nevada | United States of America | 1890-1891 | Born in Toronto, Ontario |
| Aram J. Pothier | Governor of Rhode Island | United States of America | 1909-1915, 1925-1928 | Born in Quebec |
| Oswald West | Governor of Oregon | United States of America | 1911-1915 | Born in Guelph, Ontario |
| Frank Henry Cooney | Governor of Montana | United States of America | 1933-1935 | Born in Norwood, Ontario |
| Stan Stephens | Governor of Montana | United States of America | 1989-1993 | Born in Calgary, Alberta |
| Jennifer Granholm | Governor of Michigan | United States of America | 2003-2011 | Born in Vancouver, British Columbia |
Member of a federal legislature
United States
| Individual | Position | Country | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Wentworth Upham | Congressman | United States | 1853-1855 | Born in Saint John, New Brunswick. Also served in State and Municipal government in Massachusetts |
| James Nesmith | Senator | United States | 1861-1867 | Born in Canada to American parents |
| John F. Farnsworth | Congressman | United States | 1863-1873 | Born in Eaton, Canada |
| John Fox | Congressman | United States | 1867-1871 | Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick |
| David H. Armstrong | Senator | United States | 1877-1879 | Born in Nova Scotia |
| Jacob Harold Gallinger | Senator | United States | 1885-1889 | Born in Ontario |
| James McMillan (politician) | Senator | United States | 1889-1902 | Born in Ontario |
| Samuel M. Stephenson | Congressman | United States | 1889-1897 | Born in Hartland, New Brunswick |
| Jerry Simpson | Congressman | United States | 1891-1895, 1897-1899 | Born in Prince Edward Island |
| James Castle (politician) | Congressman | United States | 1891-1893 | Born in Quebec |
| Arthur H. Taylor | Congressman | 1893-1895 | Born in Caledonia Springs, Ontario | |
| James McCleary | Congressman | 893-1907 | Born in Ingersol, Ontario | |
| Alexander M. Hardy | Congressman | United States | 1895-1897 | Born in Simcoe, Ontario |
| Joseph Millard | Senator | United States | 1901-1907 | Born in Ontario |
| Thomas Kearns | Senator | United States | 1901-1905 | Born in Ontario |
| Alfred Lucking | Congressman | United States | 1903-1905 | Born in Ingersol, Ontario |
| Philip P. Campbell | Congressman | United States | 1903-1923 | Born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia |
| Duncan E. McKinlay | Congressman | United States | 1905-1911 | Born in Orilla, Ontario |
| Isaac Stephenson | Senator | United States | 1907-1915 | Born in New Brunswick |
| Archibald C. Hart | Congressman | United States | 1912-1913, 1913-1917 | Born in Quebec |
| Robert G. Bremner | Congressman | United States | 1913-1914 | Born in Scotland. Immigrated to Canada during his youth before relocating to the United States |
| Samuel D. Nicholson | Senator | United States | 1921-1923 | Born in Prince Edward Island |
| Daniel Sutherland | Congressional Delegate | United States | 1921-1931 | Born in Nova Scotia |
| Elliott W. Sproul | Congressman | United States | 1921-1931 | Born in New Brunswick |
| James J. Couzens | Senator | United States | 1922-1936 | Born in Ontario |
| Louis Monast | Congressman | United States | 1927-1929 | Born in Quebec |
| William R. Eaton | Congressman | United States | 1929-1933 | Born in Nova Scotia |
| J. Lincoln Newhall | Congressman | United States | 1929-1931 | Born in Quebec |
| Felix Hebert | Senator | United States | 1929-1935 | Born in Quebec |
| Michael J. Hart | Congressman | United States | 1931-1935 | Born in Quebec |
| James E. Murray | Senator | United States | 1934-1961 | Born in Ontario |
| Alphonse Roy | Congressman | United States | 1938-1939 | Born in Quebec. Also served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives. |
| John C. Mackie | Congressman | United States | 1965-1967 | Born in Toronto |
| Weston E. Vivian | Congressman | United States | 1965-1967 | Born in the Dominion of Newfoundland |
| S. I. Hayakawa | Senator | United States | 1977-1983 | Born in British Columbia |
| Geoff Davis | Congressman | United States | 2005–Present | Born in Quebec |
| Ted Cruz | Senator | United States | 2013–Present | Born in Calgary |
| Sean Patrick Maloney | Congressman | United States | 2013-present | Born in Quebec |
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 Motreal to Lord Beaverbrook. Disclaimed his father's title. |
| William Aitken (MP) | 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. |
Italy
| Individual | Position | Country | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gino Bucchino | Member of the Chamber of Deputies | Italy | 2006–Present | Naturalized Canadian. Represents Italians in North America |
Cabinet Ministers
| Individual | Position | Country | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gojko Šušak | Ministry of Defence (Croatia) | Croatia | 1991-1998 | Naturalized Canadian |
| Gregory So | Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development | Hong Kong | 2011–Present | Naturalized Canada. Renounced Citizenship upon accepting his position. |
| Gabriel Leung | Undersecretary for Food and Health | Hong Kong | 2011-? | |
Municipal
| Individual | Position | Country | Years | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solomon Juneau | founding mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin | United States | 1846 | Born in Repentigny, Quebec to Metis parents |
| Joseph Medill | Mayor of Chicago Illinois | United States | 1870-1872 | Born in New Brunswick |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| Rajesh Sharma | Vice-President of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha | India | Born in Toronto | |
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 US Ambassador to Haiti. Born in Quebec
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