Judson Burpee Black (August 15, 1842 – December 9, 1924) was a Canadian physician and politician. Born in

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, the son of Thomas Henry Black and Mary E. Fownes, Black was educated at the public schools of St. Martins and Saint John, New Brunswick, Mount Allison Academy,

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and Dartmouth Medical College. A physician, he was mayor of Windsor, Nova Scotia, from 1884 to 1885 and from 1901 to 1903. He was president of the Windsor Board of Trade in 1900 and 1901. He was president for Nova Scotia of the Canadian Medical Association in 1904–05. He was first elected to the

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for the Nova Scotia electoral district of Hants at the general elections of 1904. A Liberal, he was re-elected in

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and

1911 A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory ...

Electoral record

References

The Canadian Parliament; biographical sketches and photo-engravures of the senators and members of the House of Commons of Canada. Being the tenth Parliament, elected November 3, 1904

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Black, Judson 1842 births 1924 deaths Liberal Party of Canada MPs Mayors of places in Nova Scotia Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia People from Saint John County, New Brunswick