Alexander Morrison (January 15, 1851 – January 24, 1930) was a

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farmer and politician. Born in

Kemptville Kemptville is a community located in the Municipality of North Grenville in Eastern Ontario, Canada in the northernmost part of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville. It is located approximately south of the downtown core of Ottawa and s ...

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, the son of William Morrison and Elizabeth Morrow, Morrison attended public school and then became a farmer in

Homewood, Manitoba Homewood is an unincorporated community in south central Manitoba, Canada. It is located approximately 10 kilometers (6 miles) east of Carman, Manitoba in the Rural Municipality of Dufferin. The privately owned and operated Homewood Airport is l ...

. He was Reeve of the Rural Municipality of Dufferin for six years before being elected to the

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for Macdonald in a 1912 by-election. After the election was declared void in 1913, he was re-elected in the resulting by-election. A

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, he did not run for re-election in 1917. He died in 1930 in

Carman, Manitoba Carman is a small agricultural town of about 3,000 people in the Pembina Valley Region of southern Manitoba, Canada. Carman is at the junction of Highways 3 and 13, 40 minutes southwest of Winnipeg. It is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of ...

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* 1851 births 1930 deaths Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Manitoba People from Leeds and Grenville United Counties {{Manitoba-politician-stub