About Samuel Clarke Biggs
Lived 1851 – 1911 (aged 59). Samuel Clarke Biggs was a Canadian politician.
Samuel Clarke Biggs (8 October 1851 – 27 September 1911) was a Canadian politician in the province of Manitoba.
Born in Ancaster, Wentworth County, Canada West, the son of Richard Biggs and Eleanor Wood, Biggs was educated at Victoria College in Cobourg, and the University of Toronto where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1872. He studied to be a lawyer and was made a King's Counsel in 1884. He moved to Winnipeg in 1875 and became the head of the law firm of Biggs, Dawson and Curran. From 1878 to 1879, he was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba and was Minister of Public Works in 1879. In 1878, he helped to establish The Winnipeg Daily Sun. He moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota, and then returned to Toronto.
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Canadian politician (1851-1911)
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Samuel Clarke Biggs was born on 8 October 1851 in Ancaster, Ontario, Canada West.
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Samuel Clarke Biggs died on 27 September 1911.
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Samuel Clarke Biggs was a politician.
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