The Right Honourable Sir George Halsey Perley PC GCMG
Secretary of State of Canada
In office 29 June 1926 – 24 September 1926
Prime Minister	Arthur Meighen
Preceded by	Ernest Lapointe
Succeeded by	Fernand Rinfret
Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
In office 4 August 1914 – 1922
Prime Minister	Robert Borden, Arthur Meighen W.L. Mackenzie King
Preceded by	Donald Alexander Smith
Succeeded by	Peter C. Larkin
Minister of Overseas Military Forces
In office 31 October 1916 – 11 October 1917
Prime Minister	Robert Laird Borden
Succeeded by	Albert Edward Kemp
Member of theCanadian Parliament forArgenteuil
In office 1904–1917
Preceded by	Thomas Christie Jr.
Succeeded by	Peter Robert McGibbon
In office 1925–1938
Preceded by	Charles Stewart
Succeeded by	Georges Héon
Personal details
Born	(1857-09-12)September 12, 1857 Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
Died	January 4, 1938(1938-01-04) (aged 80) Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	American, Canadian
Political party	Conservative
Spouse	Annie Hespeler Bowlby
Alma mater	Harvard University
Profession	Lumber merchant

Sir George Halsey PerleyPC GCMG (September 12, 1857 – January 4, 1938) was anAmerican-bornCanadian politician and diplomat.

Born inLebanon, New Hampshire, the son ofWilliam Goodhue Perley and Mabel E. Ticknor Stevens, Perley was educated at theOttawa Grammar School, atSt. Paul's School inConcord, New Hampshire, and atHarvard University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1878. Perley became a partner in the Perley & Pattee, a lumber company in which his father was senior partner. After Perley & Pattee dissolved in 1893, Perley became head of G.H. Perley & Co which had mills atPointe-Calumet, Quebec and vice president of the Hull Lumber Company, Ltd., which is operating largely on the upper Ottawa. For many years, Perley was vice president of theCanada Atlantic Railway Co., president of theRideau Club and president of the Ottawa Golf Club. Along with the other heirs of his father, he donated his homestead on Wellington Street for the purpose of establishing a hospital and served as vice president of itsBoard of Management. In 1900, he was chairman of the Ottawa and Hull Fire Relief Fund, and distributed about $1,000,000 among the sufferers by the1900 Hull–Ottawa fire.

Perley married Annie Hespeler Bowlby inKitchener, Ontario on 4 June 1884. Perley had two children: Mabel, born 8 July 1885 and died 13 March 1887, and Ethel Lesa, born 16 September 1888.

He was first elected to theHouse of Commons of Canada as theConservativeMP forArgenteuil in 1904, having failed to defeatMr. W. C. Edwards for the seat inRussell County during the election of 1900. Perley served asHigh Commissioner to theUnited Kingdom and Minister of the Overseas Military Forces in theWorld War I government of SirRobert Borden. He did not run for re-election in the1917 federal election in order to concentrate on his duties inLondon. He returned to the House of Commons in the1925 federal election and subsequently served asSecretary of State for Canada in the short-lived 1926 government ofArthur Meighen and then asMinister without Portfolio in the government ofR. B. Bennett following the1930 federal election. He was re-elected in the1935 federal election which also saw the defeat of Bennett's government, and remained an MP until his death in 1938.

• George Halsey Perley – Parliament of Canada biography
• "A history of Quebec, its resources and people, Volume 2".Internet Archive.
• George Halsey Perley fonds, Library and Archives Canada

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