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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
McNaughton, Andrew George Latta
Parallel form(s) of name
- A. G. L. McNaughton
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Description area
Dates of existence
1887-1966
History
Andrew George Latta McNaughton was born in Moosomin, Northwest Territories on February 25, 1887. He attended McGill University. He enlisted as a non-permanent militia in 1909 and and took the 4th Battery of the Canadian Expeditionary Force overseas in 1914. He was twice wounded and ended the war commanding the Canadian Corps artillery. He joined the permanent force in 1920 and became deputy chief of the general staff in 1922. As chief of the general staff, 1929-35, he began the mechanization of the permanent force and the modernization of the non-permanent militia. From 1935 to 1939 he was president of the National Research Council of Canada. McNaughton returned to soldiering in WWII as commander of the 1st Canadian Infantry Division in 1939. Senior Canadian officer in the UK while the force there grew to a corps (1940) and then an army (1942). He resigned his role in December of 1943. After leaving the armed forces he held a number of significant roles
including serving as minister of national defense 1944-1945; Canadian representative on the UN Atomic Energy Commission, and president of the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada, 1946-1948; permanent delegate to the UN, 1948-1949; chairman of the Canadian Section of the International Joint Commission, 1950-1962, and of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence, 1950-1959. He died on July 11, 1966 in Montebello, Quebec.