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See also:MACDONALD, See also:JOHN SANDFIELD (1812-1872) , See also:Canadian statesman, was See also:born at St See also:Raphael, Glengarry See also:county, See also:Ontario, on the 12th of See also:December 1812. He was admitted to the See also:bar in 1840, and settled in See also:Cornwall. In the same See also:year he married See also:Miss Waggaman, the daughter of an See also:American senator from See also:Louisiana. In 1841 he was elected to-the Canadian See also:parliament for Glengarry, which seat he held for sixteen years. In 1842 he joined the Reformers in the cry for constitutional See also:government, and from 1852 to 18J4 was See also:Speaker of the See also:house. He was always uncertain in his party See also:allegiance, and often attacked See also:George See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
Brown, the Liberal See also:leader. Indeed, he well described himself as " the See also:Ishmael of parliament." In 1862 he was called on by See also:Lord Monck, the See also:governor-See also:general, to See also:form a See also:ministry, which by manifold shifts held See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office till See also:February 1864. In the debates on federation he opposed the measure, but on its passage was in 1867 entrusted by the Conservatives with the task of organizing the provincial government of Ontario. He ruled the See also:province with See also:economy and efficiency, but was defeated in December 1871 by the Liberals, resigned the premier-See also:ship, and died on the 1st of See also:June 1872.
End of Article: MACDONALD, JOHN SANDFIELD (1812-1872)
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