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{{short description|Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date = October 2022}}

{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name             = Charles Carroll Colby
| honorific-suffix =  {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}}
| image            = CharlesCarrollColby23.jpg
| constituency_MP  = [[Stanstead (federal electoral district)|Stanstead]]
| parliament       = Canadian
| predecessor      = 
| successor        = [[Timothy Byron Rider]]
| term_start       = 1867
| term_end         = 1891
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1827|12|10}}
| birth_place      = Derby, Vermont
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1907|1|10|1827|12|10}}
| death_place      = Montreal, Quebec
| nationality      = 
| spouse           = 
| cabinet          = President of the Privy Council (1889-1891)
| party            = [[Liberal-Conservative Party|Liberal-Conservative]]
| relations        = [[Moses French Colby]], father
| children         = 
| residence        = 
| alma_mater       = 
| occupation       = 
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}}

'''Charles Carroll Colby''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (December 10, 1827 &ndash; January 10, 1907) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] lawyer, businessman and politician.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=1405|nolist=yes}}</ref>

He was born in [[Derby, Vermont]] in 1827,<ref name="parl"/> the son of [[Moses French Colby]], and came to [[Stanstead, Quebec]] with his family in 1832. He studied at [[Dartmouth College]] in [[New Hampshire]]. He studied law, was called to the [[Bar of Quebec|Quebec bar]] in 1855 and entered practice at Stanstead. In 1858, he married Harriet Child.<ref name="rose">{{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.91595/564 |pages=564-565 |title=A Cyclopæedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time |year=1886 |publisher=Rose Publishing Co. |editor-last=Rose |editor-first=Geo. Maclean |location=Toronto}}</ref> Colby was elected as a [[Liberal-Conservative]] MP in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] in 1867 representing [[Stanstead (federal electoral district)|Stanstead]] and remained in parliament until his defeat in 1891. He served as [[List of Canadian Presidents of the Privy Council|President of the Privy Council]] under Sir [[John A. Macdonald]] from 1889 to 1891 and was previously Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Committees of the Whole of the House of Commons.<ref name="parl"/> Colby supported the introduction of [[tariff]]s to reciprocate against those imposed by the [[United States]].<ref name="rose"/> He was a trustee of Stanstead College and a director for several railway companies. Colby served as vice-president of the Quebec Temperance and Prohibitory League.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32955/146 |page=142 |title=The Canadian Parliamentary Companion and Annual Register |year=1881 |publisher=Citizen Printing and Publishing Company |editor-last=Mackintosh |editor-first=C.H. |editor-link=Charles Herbert Mackintosh |location=Ottawa}}</ref>

Colby was the author of ''Parliamentary government in Canada'', published in Montreal in 1886. He died in [[Montreal]] at the age of 79.<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |editor-last=Johnson |editor-first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada |location=Ottawa |page=129 |url=https://archive.org/details/canadiandirector0000publ/page/129 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

In 1859, Colby built Carrollcroft, his residence at Stanstead, which now serves as the site of the Colby-Curtis Museum.<ref>[http://www.colbycurtis.ca/eng/colby_curtis_museum.html Colby-Curtis museum] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070206112728/http://www.colbycurtis.ca/eng/colby_curtis_museum.html |date=February 6, 2007 }}</ref>

== Electoral record ==
{{1867 Canadian federal election/Stanstead}}
{{1872 Canadian federal election/Stanstead}}
{{1874 Canadian federal election/Stanstead}}
{{1878 Canadian federal election/Stanstead}}
{{1882 Canadian federal election/Stanstead}}
{{1887 Canadian federal election/Stanstead}}

{{CanElec1-by|18 December 1889|On Colby being appointed President of the<br />Privy Council, 28 November 1889}}
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{{1891 Canadian federal election/Stanstead}}

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://archive.today/20130115223634/http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=record_detail&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000270&rd=149398&hs=0 The Colbys of Stanstead]
*[https://archive.today/20130115191425/http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=record_detail&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000270&rd=149411&hs=0 The Colbys of Stanstead - Charles Carroll Colby]

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[[Category:1827 births]]
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[[Category:Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs]]
[[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Quebec]]
[[Category:Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada]]
[[Category:People from Derby, Vermont]]
[[Category:19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]


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