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Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone | |
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Member of Parliament for Cape Breton North—Victoria | |
In office October 1925 – October 1935 | |
Preceded by | Fenwick Lionel Kelly |
Succeeded by | Daniel Alexander Cameron |
Personal details | |
Born | Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone 10 April 1862 Sydney, Nova Scotia |
Died | 9 March 1936 | (aged 73)
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Annie Brown m. 16 June 1892[1] |
Profession | physician, surgeon |
Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone (10 April 1862 – 9 March 1936) was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and became a physician and surgeon.
Johnstone was the grandson of Edmund Murray Dodd (1797–1876), who represented Sydney, Nova Scotia in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and served as a Judge in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. He was also a descendant of David Mathews, the Loyalist Mayor of New York City under the British during the American Revolution. He was a descendant of the Schuyler family.
Johnstone attended King's College at Windsor, Nova Scotia, then in 1886 graduated in medicine from Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He became a municipal councillor and mayor of Sydney Mines.[1]
He was first elected to Parliament at the Cape Breton North—Victoria riding in the 1925 general election then re-elected there in 1926 and 1930. Johnstone was defeated in the 1935 election by Daniel Alexander Cameron of the Liberal party.
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