Lemuel_Cushing,_Jr.

Lemuel Cushing Jr.

Lemuel Cushing Jr.

Canadian politician

Lemuel Cushing (1842 – March 1, 1881) was a lawyer and politician in Quebec. He represented Argenteuil in the House of Commons of Canada from 1874 to 1875 as a Liberal member.[1]

Lemuel Cushing
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He was born in Chatham, Canada East,[1] the son of Lemuel Cushing and Catherine Hutchins, was educated at McGill University and was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1865.[2] He practised law in Montreal.[3] In 1869, Cushing married Ellen Myra Macdougall.[4] He was president of the Montreal Y.M.C.A. from 1869 to 1870.[2] Cushing was defeated by John Abbott in the 1874 federal election. After Abbott was unseated after an appeal, Cushing won the subsequent by-election in October 1874. The results of the by-election were declared void after an appeal and Thomas Christie was elected in December 1875.[1]

In 1877, he published The Genealogy of the Cushing Family.

Cushing died in Montreal at the age of 39.[3]

Electoral record

By-election: On Mr. Abbott being unseated, on petition:

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References

  1. [1]
    Lemuel Cushing Jr. – Parliament of Canada biography
  2. [2]
    The Canadian parliamentary companion for 1875, HJ Morgan
  3. [3]
    Johnson, J.K. (1968). The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967. Public Archives of Canada.
  4. [4]
    The Genealogy of the Cushing Family (1877) Cushing, Lemuel p. 101


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