Patrick Hughes (politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Irish merchant and politician
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About Patrick Hughes (politician)
- Patrick Hughes (March 26, 1831 – March 24, 1899) was an Irish-born merchant and political figure in Ontario, Canada.
- He represented Niagara in the House of Commons of Canada from 1878 to 1879 as a Liberal member. He was born in Newry, County Down, the son of Bernard Hughes and Anne Fegan, and came to Toronto with his family in 1847.
- Hughes entered the dry goods business with his brother Bernard under the combined name of Hughes Brothers.
- He was married twice: to Mary Eliza Donohoe in 1857 and to Margaret Louise Sheridan in 1876.
- Hughes served as a member of Toronto city council in 1877 and 1878.
- He was elected to the House of Commons in the 1878 federal election for the riding of Niagara, defeating the incumbent Josiah Burr Plumb; his election was overturned on appeal the following year and he lost the subsequent by-election to Plumb.
- He was a director of the Imperial Bank in Toronto, the Bristol and West of England Loan and Investment Company and the Toronto Savings Bank.
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