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About Thomas Reuben Black
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- Thomas Reuben Black (16 October 1832 – 14 September 1905) was a Canadian politician, senator and farmer from Amherst, Nova Scotia. Black was educated at Amherst Academy and purchased the family farm where he was an innovative and progressive manager.
- He also acquired real estate in his home town demonstrating his commitment to the area.
- In 1860, he married Eunice, the daughter of William W.
- Bent, a former Nova Scotia MLA.
- Black left farming in the 1880s to become involved in politics.
- He was first elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly for Cumberland County in 1884 in a by-election held after Charles James Townshend was elected to the House of Commons.
- He was reelected in 1886, then was defeated in 1890.
- Black was then elected again in 1894, 1897 and 1901.
- In 1896, he served as a minister without portfolio in the provincial cabinet.
- He was appointed to the Senate of Canada as a Liberal on 10 June 1904.
- Black remarried Bethia Clarke in 1905.
- He died in office. Black had 4 children of which two daughters died in their teens and two sons.
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