Daniel Lionel Hanington (June 27, 1835 – May 5, 1909) was a

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, Canada politician and jurist. He was born at

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, the son of

Daniel Hanington Daniel Hanington (1804 – May 5, 1889) was a farmer, mill owner and political figure in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Westmorland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1834 to 1862. He was born ...

, and was educated there and at Mount Allison Academy in Sackville. He went on to study law and was called to the New Brunswick bar in 1861. In that same year, he married Emily Myers Wetmore. He served as a school trustee for several years and was clerk for the Westmorland County court from 1867 to 1870. Hanington ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial

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for Westmorland in 1870 but was elected in an 1870 by-election as a

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. He was defeated in 1874 then regained his seat in 1878 and entered the

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and succeeded Fraser as

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in 1882. Hanington was sympathetic to

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rights and appointed a member of that community,

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, to the senior cabinet position of provincial secretary. However, Hanington faced a

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, Andrew G. Blair who had organised the

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into a powerful force. In 1883, Blair defeated Hanington's

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government in a

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and won the subsequent election. Hanington continued as leader of the opposition but was unable to defeat Blair's Liberals in the 1886 election. He remained in the legislature until 1892 and, in 1896, he accepted an appointment to the bench as a member of the province's

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. He was the presiding judge at the last trial of

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References

''The Canadian biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men ...'' (1881)
pp. 660–661.
Biography, Government of New Brunswick
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