Peter Adolphus McIntyre (July 19, 1840 – July 16, 1910) was a

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.Prince Edward Island:Lieutenant Governors Gallery:Peter Adolphus McIntyre
Government of Prince Edward Island, accessed December 26, 2007 Born at Peterville in Kings County,

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, McIntyre's paternal grandfather came to Canada from

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around 1785 and settled at Cable Head, PEI. McIntyre's great-grandfather on his mother's side fought under

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at the

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in 1759. McIntyre was educated at the Quebec Seminary,

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and

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where he earned his medical degree in 1867. He returned to Prince Edward Island to begin his practice. He served as Kings County coroner for several years. In 1872 he was appointed one of the commissioners overlooking the construction of the

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and was railway commander. Following Prince Edward Island's entry into

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which occurred, in part, as a result of the debt incurred by the colony for the railway's construction, McIntyre was elected in the 1874 federal election to the

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as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Kings County. He was defeated in the 1878 federal election but regained his seat in

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and was re-elected in

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. After being defeated in the next two elections, McIntyre was appointed the seventh

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by the Laurier government in 1899. He served in office until 1904 and died six years later in Souris, P.E.I.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McIntyre, Peter Adolphus 1840 births 1910 deaths Politicians from Kings County, Prince Edward Island Liberal Party of Canada MPs Lieutenant governors of Prince Edward Island Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Prince Edward Island McGill University Faculty of Medicine alumni Canadian coroners 19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada