About Alexander Francis Macdonald
Lived 1818 – 1913 (aged 94–95). Alexander Francis Macdonald was a Canadian politician and railway worker.
Alexander Francis Macdonald (1818 – April 12, 1913) was a politician and railway contractor.
The son of Alexander Macdonald, he was educated in Cornwall and at St Raphael's College. He settled in Cornwall. Macdonald was president of the Canada Cotton Company. After being elected in the 1874 election on January 22, he was unseated by petition on September 7, 1874, and re-elected on October 20 the same year. Macdonald did not run in the 1878 election. His brothers, John Sandfield Macdonald and Donald Alexander Macdonald, were also Members of Parliament.
Macdonald never married. He died in Cornwall at the age of 95.
Electoral record
On Mr. Macdonald being unseated on petition, 7 September 1874:
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Alexander Francis Macdonald was born in 1818 in South Glengarry.
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Alexander Francis Macdonald died on 12 April 1913 in Cornwall.
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Alexander Francis Macdonald was a politician and railway worker.
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