Jessie Isabel Meighen (née Cox; April 18, 1882 – September 6, 1985) was the wife of
Arthur Meighen
Arthur Meighen (; June 16, 1874 – August 5, 1960) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Canada from 1920 to 1921 and from June to September 1926. He led the Conservative Party from 1920 to 1926 and fr ...
, the ninth
Prime Minister of Canada
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.
She was born in
Granby,
Quebec
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. She married Arthur Meighen in 1904, and they had two sons and one daughter:
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Theodore Roosevelt Meighen (1905–1979), whose son
Michael Meighen
Michael Arthur Meighen, (born March 25, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, cultural patron, and former senator. He practised as a litigation and commercial lawyer in Montreal and Toronto. He is a grandson of Arthur Meighen, the ninth Prime Minister ...
is a Canadian former senator, lawyer and cultural patron
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Maxwell Charles Gordon Meighen (1908–1992)
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Lillian Meighen Wright
Lillian Wright (née Meighen; 1910 – 1993) was a Canadian philanthropist and the daughter of Canadian Prime Minister Arthur Meighen and Isabel Meighen.
She was married to Don Wright, a music teacher and composer that she met while atte ...
(1910–1993)
Meighen died at the age of 103 and was interred next to her husband in the
St. Marys Cemetery in the town of
St. Marys,
Ontario
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.
See also
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Spouse of the prime minister of Canada
The spouse of the prime minister of Canada (french: époux du premier ministre du Canada) is the wife or husband of the prime minister of Canada. Sophie Grégoire Trudeau is the wife of the 23rd and current prime minister, Justin Trudeau.
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References
Isabel Meighen
1880s births
1985 deaths
Canadian centenarians
People from Granby, Quebec
People from St. Mary's, Ontario
Spouses of prime ministers of Canada
Anglophone Quebec people
Women centenarians
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