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John Stevenson (Canadian politician)

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Political party
  
Conservative

Resigned
  
February 25, 1871

Succeeded by
  
John Thomas Grange

Role
  
Legislator

Name
  
John Stevenson


John Stevenson (Canadian politician)

Born
  
August 12, 1812 Hunterdon County, New Jersey (
1812-08-12
)

Died
  
April 1, 1884, Greater Napanee, Canada

Party
  
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

John Stevenson (August 12, 1812 – April 1, 1884) was the first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1871 and served as Conservative MPP for Lennox from 1867 to 1871.

Born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Stevenson's family moved to New York State (likely to the Albany, New York area and finally to Upper Canada. He was educated in Brockville and taught school briefly. Stevenson worked in various trades before entering politics:

  • flour mill operator
  • foundry owner
  • axe shopkeeper
  • brush factory owner
  • lumberman
  • shipping company owner
  • In 1842, he married Phoebe Eliza Hall.

    Stevenson also served as a justice of the peace and as reeve for Napanee. From 1863 to 1865, he was warden for Lennox and Addington County.

    After his defeat in 1871 by John Thomas Grange, he ran for the Lennox seat in the Canadian House of Commons in 1872 as an independent, losing to Richard John Cartwright, formerly a Conservative, now a Liberal. In 1878, he campaigned on behalf of Cartwright. Stevenson died in Napanee, Ontario in 1884.

    References

    John Stevenson (Canadian politician) Wikipedia