John Sandfield Macdonald

John Sandfield Macdonald, QC ( born December 12, 1812 in St Raphael West, Glengarry County, Upper Canada, † June 1, 1872 in Cornwall, Ontario) was a Canadian politician. He was from 15 July 1867 to 20 December 1871, the first Prime Minister of the Province of Ontario. In addition, he was from 1867 until his death in the Canadian House of Commons, and was Leader of the Conservative Party of Ontario. Previously, he had for 16 years a member of the Parliament of the Province of Canada, and had been from 1862 to 1864 co- head of government of this British colony.

Biography

The son of Scottish immigrants worked after school for a few years as a salesman in a grocery store. From 1832 to 1835 he studied law, 1840, he was admitted to the bar and opened a law firm in Cornwall. In the same year he married in New York City Marie Christine Waggaman, daughter of George Augustus Waggaman, a former senator of the U.S. state of Louisiana. 1841 persuaded him influential conservatives have to run a seat in the lower house of the province of Canada.

Macdonald was elected by a large margin, and belonged to the Parliament of this British colony of uninterrupted until its dissolution in 1867. From 1849 to 1852 he was a member of Robert Baldwin's Cabinet and was Deputy Minister of Justice of Upper Canada. Of May 24, 1862, he served as Co - Head of Government of the Province of Canada, initially with Louis -Victor Sicotte, May 15, 1863 to May 30, 1864, Antoine -Aimé Dorion. At the beginning Macdonald was an opponent of Canadian confederation, but accepted them as inevitable and ultimately became an ally of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of the new Canadian state.

With the support of his namesake Macdonald was appointed on 15 July 1867, the first Prime Minister of the new province of Ontario. Five days later, the choice was followed by the Canadian House of Commons (then dual mandates at provincial and federal level were still allowed). The first elections to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario in September 1867 resulted in a stalemate, so Conservatives and Liberals formed a coalition government under Macdonald's leadership. Her focus was to develop the infrastructure and the restructuring of the education system.

On 20 December 1871, the government was toppled by a vote of no confidence. Macdonald became seriously ill and died five months a year later of heart failure. For the next 132 years it remained the only Catholic Prime Minister of Ontario, until the election of Dalton McGuinty in 2003. His younger brother Donald Alexander Macdonald was also lower house deputy.