Thomas Nicholson Gibbs

Thomas Nicholson Gibbs PC ( born March 11, 1821 in Terrebonne, Lower Canada, † April 7, 1883 ) was a Canadian factory owner, businessman and politician of the Liberal - Conservative Party.

Life

The factory owners and merchants Gibbs began his political career in September 1867 when he was elected as a candidate of the Liberal - Conservative party in the constituency of Ontario south to a member of the Canadian House of Commons. On 14 June 1873 he put this mandate down after he was appointed Secretary of State for the provinces in the first Canadian cabinet of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald and the Superintendent General of Indian Affairs. However, these offices he lost 16 days later, however, was the day appointed it to the Minister for Internal Taxes and held until the end of Macdonald's term of office on November 5, 1873 this function.

In July 1873 he was also elected at a by-election in the constituency of South Ontario back to a member of the lower house, but again lost this mandate at the general election in January 1874.

With a further by-election in July 1876, he was again a member for Ontario South in the House, before he again suffered a defeat in the general election in September 1878, lost his House seat.

At the suggestion of Prime Minister Macdonald eventually took place on April 3, 1880 he was appointed a member of the Canadian Senate. In this he represented until his death in Newmarket and the interests of the Province of Ontario in the Senate.

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  • CV (Website of the Canadian Parliament )
  • Federal Minister (Canada)
  • Member of the House of Commons (Canada)
  • Senator (Canada)
  • Member of the Canadian Privy Council
  • Entrepreneur
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1821
  • Died in 1883
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