Lemuel Cushing
Source: Library and Archives Canada

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.[1]

He was born in Chatham, Canada East,[1] the son of Lemuel Cushing and Catherine Hutchins, was educated at McGill University and was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1865.[2] He practised law in Montreal.[3] In 1869, Cushing married Ellen Myra Macdougall.[4] He was president of the Montreal Y.M.C.A. from 1869 to 1870.[2] 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.[1]

In 1877, he published The Genealogy of the Cushing Family.

Cushing died in Montreal at the age of 39.[3]

Electoral record

By-election: On Mr. Abbott being unseated, on petition:

6 October 1874
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
  Liberal Lemuel Cushing, Jr. 84053.30
  Unknown William Owens 73646.70
1874 Canadian federal election: Argenteuil
Party Candidate Votes%±%
  Liberal-Conservative John Abbott 73150.14
  Unknown Lemuel Cushing Jr. 72749.86

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lemuel Cushing Jr. – Parliament of Canada biography
  2. 1 2 The Canadian parliamentary companion for 1875, HJ Morgan
  3. 1 2 Johnson, J.K. (1968). The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967. Public Archives of Canada.
  4. The Genealogy of the Cushing Family (1877) Cushing, Lemuel p. 101


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