Robert Smith (Ontario politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Smith (Ontario politician)

Canadian politician and farmer

Date of Birth: 11-Apr-1819

Place of Birth: County Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 19-Sep-1900

Profession: politician, farmer

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Aries

For the Member of Parliament for Stormont and Supreme Court Justice see Robert Smith (judge) Robert Smith (April 11, 1819 – September 19, 1900) was a Canadian politician and farmer. Born in County Armagh, Ireland, Smith immigrated to British North America with his family in 1828 and settled in the Home District of Canada West, which was to become the County of Peel in Ontario, where he became a farmer.
In 1847, he married Eliza Jane McCandless.
Smith served on the councils for Chinguacousy Township and Peel County.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in 1867.
Smith was narrowly elected to the 2nd Canadian Parliament in the 1872 federal election defeating the Conservative incumbent, John Hillyard Cameron, by 16 votes.
He sat as a Liberal representing the riding of Peel and was re-elected in the 1874 election that brought the Liberal Party to power but defeated in the 1878 election that returned a Conservative government.
Smith died in Brampton at the age of 81.