Lemuel Cushing (1842 – March 1, 1881) was a lawyer and politician in

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. He represented

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in the House of Commons of Canada from 1874 to 1875 as a

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member. He was born in Chatham,

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, the son of

Lemuel Cushing Lemuel Cushing (April 29, 1806 – May 18, 1875) was a businessman and pioneer in the Ottawa valley. He was born in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada, the son of Job Cushing, who came to the Eastern Townships from the United States. Cushing moved t ...

and Catherine Hutchins, was educated at

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and was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1865.''The Canadian parliamentary companion for 1875''
HJ Morgan He practised law in

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. In 1869, Cushing married Ellen Myra Macdougall. ''The Genealogy of the Cushing Family'' (1877)
Cushing, Lemuel p. 101 He was president of the Montreal

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from 1869 to 1870. Cushing was defeated by

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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

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was elected in December 1875. In 1877, he published ''The Genealogy of the Cushing Family''. Cushing died in Montreal at the age of 39.

Electoral record

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

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1842 births 1881 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec Liberal Party of Canada MPs McGill University alumni Anglophone Quebec people Canadian people of American descent {{Liberal-Quebec-MP-stub