Joseph Jamieson (March 15, 1839 – March 12, 1923) was a lawyer and political figure in

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, Canada. He represented

Lanark North Lanark North was a federal electoral district represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1917. It was located in the province of Ontario. It was created by the British North America Act 1867 which divided the County of Lanark i ...

in the

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from 1882 to 1891 as a

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member. He was born in Sherbrooke,

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, the son of William Jamieson, an immigrant from

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, and was educated in

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. In 1865, he married Elizabeth Carss. Jamieson was called to the Ontario bar in 1869. He served as reeve for Almonte, warden for Lanark County and chairman of the board of license commissioners for North Lanark. Jamieson ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in the 1878 federal election and an 1880 by-election. He resigned his seat in December 1891 after being named junior county judge for Wellington County.

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* * * 1839 births 1923 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs Judges in Ontario Mayors of Almonte, Ontario 19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada 19th-century mayors of places in Ontario {{HistoricalConservative-Ontario-MP-stub