James Morrow (Manitoba politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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(1857-1949) Canadian politician
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About James Morrow (Manitoba politician)
- James Morrow (July 8, 1857 – March 1, 1949) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1911 to 1915, as a member of the Conservative Party. Morrow was born to William Morrow and Nancy Booth, an Irish family in Mille-Isles, Canada East (now Quebec).
- His father was a member of the 11th Argenteuil Rangers during the Fenian raids of 1866.
- Morrow was educated at common school, and worked as a farmer.
- He moved to Manitoba in 1879, and served as councillor and reeve of the Rural Municipality of Louise for ten years.
- Morrow married Mary A.
- McDougall in 1883.
- In religion, he was a Presbyterian. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in a by-election held in the constituency of Manitou on October 31, 1911, after incumbent member Robert Rogers resigned to run for the House of Commons of Canada.
- Morrow was elected without opposition, and served as a backbench supporter of Rodmond Roblin's government.
- He was re-elected by seventy votes over Liberal I.H.
- Davidson in the 1914 provincial election. The Roblin administration was forced to resign in 1915, after a report commissioned by the Lieutenant Governor found the government guilty of corruption in the tendering of contracts for new legislative buildings.
- A new election was called, which the Liberals won in a landslide.
- Morrow was not a candidate for re-election.He died at the Grace Hospital in Winnipeg.
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