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| | Robert James Manion -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Of Irish descent, Manion studied medicine at (Click link for more info and facts about Queen's University, Kingston) Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario and at Edinburgh before settling in his hometown of (Click link for more info and facts about Fort William, Ontario) Fort William, Ontario where his parents had lived since 1888. |
 | | However, the economic crisis of the (The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s) Great Depression destroyed the Bennett government, and Manion, with many others, lost his seat in the (Click link for more info and facts about 1935 election) 1935 election. |
 | | Manion entered the (The lower house of the British parliament) House of Commons through a (Click link for more info and facts about by-election) by-election in 1938. |
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