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Perrin Beatty first won election to the Canadian House Of Commons as a Progressive Conservative at the age of 22 in the 1972 Election . He is a graduate of Upper Canada College in Toronto , Ontario , and of the University Of Western Ontario in London . In 1979 , he became, at the time, the youngest person ever appointed to a Canadian Cabinet when Prime Minister Joe Clark made Beatty his Minister Of State for the Treasury Board in the short-lived government. Beatty returned to the Opposition benches as a result of the defeat of the Clark government in the 1980 Election . With the Conservative victory in the 1984 Election , Prime Minister Brian Mulroney made Beatty Minister Of National Revenue and Minister responsible for Canada Post . He subsequently served as Solicitor General Of Canada ( 1985 – 1986 ), Defence Minister (1986 – 1989 ), Minister Of National Health And Welfare (1989 – 1991 ), and the now defunct position of Minister Of Communications (1991 – 1993 ). Despite long being touted as a future Tory leader, Beatty did not run in the 1993 Progressive Conservative Leadership Convention to succeed Mulroney. He was promoted to Secretary Of State For External Affairs in the short-lived government of Mulroney's successor, Kim Campbell , but lost his seat in the 1993 Election which returned only two Tory MPs. In 1995 , the Liberal government of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien appointed Beatty President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation , a position he held until 1999 when he became president and CEO of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, a business association that promotes the interests of Canadian industry and exporters. He has been married to Julia Florence Carroll Kenny since February 23 , 1974 . They have two sons, Christopher Perrin (b. April 26 , 1984 ) and Patrick Caverhill (b. March 15 , 1988 ). EXTERNAL LINKS
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