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Walter Stanley Monroe ( May 14 , 1871 - October 6 , 1952 ) was a businessman and conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of Newfoundland from 1924 to 1928 as leader of the Liberal-Conservative Progressive Party . He was born in Ireland in 1871, the first son of John Monroe and Elizabeth Monroe. He emigrated to Newfoundland to join his uncle, Moses Monroe, in 1888. Monroe was a successful businessman who briefly served in the government of William Warren . He emerged from the political crisis that destroyed the governments of Sir Richard Squires and William Warren as leader of a new party, the ''Liberal-Conservative Progressive Party'', which had been cobbled together by Warren and the opposition Conservatives after Warren's government fell. The party was essentially a conservative party and swept to power in the 1924 election, weeks after it was formed. The Monroe government saw a successful settlement of the Labrador boundary dispute with Quebec after Newfoundland successfully argued its case at the Judicial Committee Of The Privy Council in London . Monroe returned to private life in August 1928 and passed the leadership of the party to his cousin Frederick C. Alderdice who became the new Prime Minister. EXTERNAL LINK
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