Jessie Isabel Meighen (née Cox; April 18, 1882 – September 6, 1985) was the wife of

Arthur Meighen Arthur Meighen (; June 16, 1874 – August 5, 1960) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Canada from 1920 to 1921 and from June to September 1926. He led the Conservative Party from 1920 to 1926 and fro ...

, the ninth

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. She was born in Granby,

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. She married Arthur Meighen in 1904, and they had two sons and one daughter: # Theodore Roosevelt Meighen (1905–1979), whose son

Michael Meighen Michael Arthur Meighen, (born March 25, 1939) is a Canadian lawyer, cultural patron, and former senator. He practised as a litigation and commercial lawyer in Montreal and Toronto. He is a grandson of Arthur Meighen, the ninth Prime Minister o ...

is a Canadian former senator, lawyer and cultural patron # Maxwell Charles Gordon Meighen (1908–1992) #

Lillian Meighen Wright Lillian Wright (née Meighen; 1910 – 1993) was a Canadian philanthropist and the daughter of Canadian Prime Minister Arthur Meighen and Isabel Meighen. She was married to Don Wright, a music teacher and composer that she met while attendi ...

(1910–1993) Meighen died at the age of 103 and was interred next to her husband in the St. Marys Cemetery in the town of St. Marys,

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Isabel Meighen Jessie Isabel Meighen (née Cox; April 18, 1882 – September 6, 1985) was the wife of Arthur Meighen, the ninth Prime Minister of Canada. She was born in Granby, Quebec. She married Arthur Meighen in 1904, and they had two sons and one ...

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