C. D. Howe

Clarence Decatur Howe was an American-born Canadian engineer, businessman and Liberal Party politician. Howe served as a cabinet minister in the governments of William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent continuously from 1935 to 1957. He is credited with transforming the Canadian economy from agriculture-based to industrial. During the Second World War, his involvement in the war effort was so extensive that he was nicknamed the "Minister of Everything".