Charles Mickle
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Charles Mickle (born July 22, 1849 in Stratford, Canada West, now Ontario) was a Manitoba politician. On two occasions, he was the parliamentary leader of the Manitoba Liberal Party.
Mickle trained as a lawyer, and was admitted to the bar in 1872. He practiced law for ten years before moving to Manitoba.
Mickle was elected to the Manitoba legislature for Birtle in 1888, as a supporter of Liberal Premier Thomas Greenway. He was re-elected in 1892 (easily defeating Conservative candidate H.M. Power), and won by acclamation in 1896.
In November 1896, Mickle entered Greenway's cabinet as Provincial Secretary. He would hold this position until the resignation of the Greenway ministry in January 1900.
The Liberals lost the election of 1899, but Mickle was re-elected in Birtle. He was also one of only nine Liberals to be re-elected in the electoral debacle of 1903; the party won only nine seats, but Mickle scored a surprisingly easy victory (584 votes to 293) over Conservative John Leich. When Greenway re-entered federal politics in 1904, Mickle was chosen to replace him as parliamentary leader.
Mickle served as the de facto party leader until March 28, 1906, when a provincial Liberal convention acclaimed Edward Brown for the position. Brown was unable to win a seat in the election which followed, and Mickle again became parliamentary leader in January 1908.
He left politics in 1909, having been appointed a County Court Judge.