About Lemuel Cushing
Lived 1842 – 1881 (aged 38–39). Lemuel Cushing was a Canadian politician and lawyer.
Lemuel Cushing (1842 – March 1, 1881) was a lawyer and politician in Quebec. He represented Argenteuil in the House of Commons of Canada from 1874 to 1875 as a Liberal member.
He was born in Chatham, Canada East, He practised law in Montreal. In 1869, Cushing married Ellen Myra Macdougall. He was president of the Montreal Y.M.C.A. from 1869 to 1870. Cushing was defeated by John Abbott in the 1874 federal election. After Abbott was unseated after an appeal, Cushing won the subsequent by-election in October 1874. The results of the by-election were declared void after an appeal and Thomas Christie was elected in December 1875.
In 1877, he published The Genealogy of the Cushing Family.
Cushing died in Montreal at the age of 39.
Electoral record By-election: On Mr. Abbott being unseated, on petition: Liberal Lemuel Cushing, Jr.
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