Oscar Emery Morehouse (August 5, 1857 – January 1, 1935) was a Canadian medical doctor and
Conservative political figure. He represented
York County in the New Brunswick
provincial legislature
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from 1911 to 1917.
A graduate of McGill Medical School, Morehouse practiced family medicine in the Kedgwick Ridge area of New Brunswick. He was first elected in a 1911 by-election held following the death of
Thomas Robison. Re-elected in the
1912 general, he retired from politics to return to his medical practice at the dissolution of the
33rd Legislature in 1917.
Morehouse's granddaughter,
Patricia Crossman, would also sit in the
legislature
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as the
Progressive Conservative member for
Riverview from 1999 to her death in 2002.
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References
1857 births
1935 deaths
Conservative Party of New Brunswick MLCs
McGill University Faculty of Medicine alumni
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