SENATOR HENRY ALBERT MULLINS

    Harry Mullins, as he was popularly known in the Russell district was a member of the Manitoba Legislative from 1889 to 1903. He was a well-known figure in the cattle industry and during World War I he was appointed head of the meat-purchasing department of the Canadian Armed Services with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

    In 1925 he was elected to the House of Commons for the constituency of Marquette. That session was very short. He was re-elected in 1930. In 1935 he was appointed to the Senate.

    Col. Mullins and his wife had two daughters. The family often spent their winters at Santa Monica, California, as he loved to be near the ocean.

    There is a story - which he was fond of telling about himself - that when he was first elected to the Legislature he practiced his first speech sitting on Y. J. Attwood's fence addressing a herd of 700 head of cattle.

     Senator Mullins was widely known in Britain and in Canada as a cattle exporter.  He gained fame through the energy he brought to bear to secure the lifting of the embargo which had been placed on Canadian cattle following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

     Because of failing health at the age of 85 he resigned from the Senate in 1950.

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