John McShane (comics)
John McShane may refer to: *John A. McShane (1850–1923), United States Representative from Nebraska * John James McShane (1882–1972), British Member of Parliament *Jon McShane Jon McShane (born 14 September 1991) is a Scottish professional football who most recently played for Stenhousemuir. He previously played for St Mirren, Dumbarton, Hamilton Academical, Celtic Nation, East Fife and Stranraer. He now resides in ...

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Sir John Alexander Macdonald (January 10 or 11, 1815 – June 6, 1891) was the first prime minister of Canada, serving from 1867 to 1873 and from 1878 to 1891. The dominant figure of Canadian Confederation, he had a political career that spanned almost half a century. Macdonald was born in Scotland; when he was a boy his family immigrated to Kingston in the Province of Upper Canada (today in eastern Ontario). As a lawyer, he was involved in several high-profile cases and quickly became prominent in Kingston, which elected him in 1844 to the legislature of the Province of Canada. By 1857, he had become premier under the colony's unstable political system. In 1864, when no party proved capable of governing for long, Macdonald agreed to a proposal from his political rival, George Brown, that the parties unite in a Great Coalition to seek federation and political reform. Macdonald was the leading figure in the subsequent discussions and conferences, which resulted in the Brit ...
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John James McShane
John James McShane (1 October 1882 – 26 May 1972) was a British school teacher and Labour politician. Early life He was born in Wishaw, Lanarkshire, Scotland, and was the son of Philip McShane, a coalminer, and his wife Bridget. Both his parents were born in Ireland. He was educated at St Ignatius School, Wishaw.''Dod's Parliamentary Companion, 1931'', p.384 Career In 1909 McShane became a schoolmaster, and subsequently moved to Walsall in the English Black Country, where he was the headmaster of the St Mary's the Mount Catholic School. In 1929 he was selected as the Labour Party's candidate to contest the Walsall parliamentary constituency. He succeeded in taking the seat, ousting the sitting Conservative MP William Preston and beating the former Liberal cabinet minister T J Macnamara into third place. McShane was only in parliament for two years, losing his seat to Joseph Leckie Joseph Alexander Leckie (24 May 1866 – 9 August 1938) was a British Liberal, later Liber ...
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