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- DOB & DOD: Ancestry. com and ICCANB.
1852: Graduated from the College de Ste. Anne de la Pocatiere, Que
Esatablished residence at Grand Falls, NB.
Appointed Justice of the Peace, and a Justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas.
1857: Appointed Registrar of Deeds and Wills for Victoria Co.
1861: Elected to the House of Assmbly of New Brunswick.
1865: Re-elected to the House of Assembly.
1866: He suffered defeat at the polls over the issue of Confederation, to which he was opposed.
1867: He was elected to the House of Commons and re-elected at at the next nine general elections and sat continuosly until 1907 when he resigned his seat on being appointed to the Senate of Canada.
1882: Sworn in as a member of the Privy Council of Canada and received the portfolio0 of Minister of Inland Revenue in the administration of the Right Honorable Sir John A. MacDonald, which position he held until 1892.
Other positions held:
Portfolio of Secretary of State of Canada and Receiver General from December 1892 to December 1894.
Minister of Marine and Fisheries, Dewcember 1894 to July 1896.
He served in the Administrations of the Right Honorable Sir J. C. Abbott; Sir J.S.B.Thompson; Sir Mackenzie Bowell, and Sir Charles Tuppewr.
1896: Retired from public office when the Conservative Party, of which he was a life long member, lost at the polls.
1907: He was appointed to the Senate of Canada, which position he held until his death in 1916.
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1835 - 1916 (81 years)
