About Thomas Chisholm
Lived 1842 – 1931 (aged 89). Thomas Chisholm was a Canadian politician, lecturer, physician, writer and teacher.
Thomas Chisholm (April 12, 1842 – October 1, 1931) was a Canadian physician and politician.
Born in Glen Williams, Halton County, Canada West, the son of John Chisholm and Jane McClure, he graduated from the University of Toronto School of Medicine in 1879. He was principal of Public Schools at Belwood and Waterdown, Ontario. He was a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.
He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Huron East in the general elections of 1904. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1908 and did not run in 1911.
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Canadian politician (1842–1931)
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Thomas Chisholm was born on 12 April 1842 in Glen Williams.
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Thomas Chisholm died on 1 October 1931.
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Thomas Chisholm was a politician, lecturer, physician, writer and teacher.
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Thomas Chisholm was Canadian.
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