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Mr. Hanbidge was appointed a King's Counsel in 1933.His political career began when he served as mayor of Kerrobert from 1921 to 1923.He was also a councillor at Kerrobert in the early 1920s and later served as chairman of the school and hospital boards.Elected to the Saskatchewan Legislature in 1929 as Conservative M.L.A. for Kerrobert, Mr. Hanbidge was chief whip in the Cooperative government of Premier J.M.T. Anderson.He was defeated in 1934 and left provincial politics.In 1945 he ran as a Progressive Conservative in the federal constituency of Kindersley but was defeated.In 1958 he contested the constituency again under the same banner and was elected, and four years later was returned in the 1962 general election.