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 | | He was a member of the Executive Council in Ontario in the Sandfield-Macdonald Administration, from July 20, 1867, until the resignation of the Ministry, December 19, 1871, and with the exception of the last five months of this period, when he was Commissioner of Crown Lands, he held the offices of Provincial Secretary and Registrar. |
 | | In 1861 he entered the arena of political life, and sat for North Ontario, in the Canada Assembly, from the general election of that year until the general election of 1863, when he was defeated. |
 | | He was also leader, and a very able one, too, of the Opposition, from the general election in December, 1871, until appointed to the Judgeship in the Queen's Bench, in November, 1878, which position he held until appointed Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in 1884. |
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