John McConnell (May 20, 1799 – 1856 or later) was a political figure in

Canada East Canada East (french: links=no, Canada-Est) was the northeastern portion of the United Province of Canada. Lord Durham's Report investigating the causes of the Upper and Lower Canada Rebellions recommended merging those two colonies. The new ...

. He represented Stanstead in the

Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada was the lower house of the legislature for the Province of Canada, which consisted of the former provinces of Lower Canada, then known as Canada East and later the province of Quebec, and Upper C ...

from 1844 to 1851. He was born in Hatley,

Lower Canada The Province of Lower Canada (french: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec an ...

, the son of Thomas McConnell, a native of

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, and Roxana Hovey. McConnell was a member of a citizen's committee formed to promote the construction of a railway from Montreal to Boston via Sherbrooke. He served in the militia, reaching the rank of lieutenant-colonel. In 1820, he married Alice Wadley. McConnell later became involved in the movement favouring annexation with the United States. He did not run for reelection to the assembly in 1851 and was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1854.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:McConnell, John 1799 births 19th-century deaths Year of death missing Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from Canada East People from Estrie