James Maclennan (March 17, 1833 – June 9, 1915) was a

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of the

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. Born in the township of

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), the son of Roderick Maclennan and Mary Macpherson, he received a

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from Queen's University in 1849. He studied to be a lawyer and was called to the bar in 1857. He practised law with

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until 1888, when he was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal. He was the editor of ''The Ontario Judicature Act'', 1881 (1884) Maclennan ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Ontario assembly in 1871. In the 1874 federal election, he was elected to the

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in the riding of

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. However, the election was declared void. He won the

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in 1874 but again the election was declared void. In 1905, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada and retired in 1909. Maclennan was married twice: to Elizabeth McGill in 1862 and to Mary L. Strange in 1909, possibly children, but none surviving him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maclennan, James 1833 births 1915 deaths Queen's University at Kingston alumni Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario 19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada