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{{Short description|Canadian politician (1865–1940)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = The Hon.
| name             = Edward Mortimer Macdonald
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| smallimage       = Edward Mortimer Macdonald.jpg
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| constituency_MP  = [[Antigonish—Guysborough]]
| parliament       = Canadian
| predecessor      = [[Colin Francis McIsaac]]
| successor        = [[John Carey Douglas]]
| term_start       = 1925
| term_end         = 1926
| constituency_MP2 = [[Pictou (federal electoral district)|Pictou]]
| parliament2      = Canadian
| predecessor2     = [[Adam Carr Bell]]
| successor2       = [[Alexander McGregor (Canadian politician)|Alexander McGregor]]
| term_start2      = 1904
| term_end2        = 1925
| office3          = Member of the [[Nova Scotia House of Assembly]] for Pictou
| predecessor3     = 
| successor3       = 
| term_start3      = 1897
| term_end3        = 1904
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1865|08|16}}
| birth_place      = [[Pictou, Nova Scotia|Pictou]], [[Nova Scotia]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1940|05|25|1865|08|16}}
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| party            = [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]]
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| cabinet          = Minister Without Portfolio (1923)<br />Minister of National Defence (1923-1926)
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'''Edward Mortimer Macdonald''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|KC}} (August 16, 1865 &ndash; May 25, 1940) was a [[Canadian]] politician.

Born in [[Pictou, Nova Scotia]], the son of John D. and Mary Isabel Macdonald, Macdonald was educated at the [[Pictou Academy]] and [[Dalhousie University|Dalhousie College]] where he received a Bachelor of Law in 1887. He was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1887 and the Bar of Quebec in 1918. He was created a [[King's Counsel]] in 1904.

He first ran for [[House of Commons of Canada]] in the riding of [[Pictou (federal electoral district)|Pictou]] in the [[1896 Canadian federal election|1896 federal election]]. Defeated, he lost again in [[1900 Canadian federal election|1900]]. From 1897 to 1904, he was the [[Liberal Party of Nova Scotia|Nova Scotia Liberal]] member of the [[Nova Scotia House of Assembly]] for the electoral district of Pictou.

He was elected in the [[1904 Canadian federal election|1904 federal election]]. A [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]], he was re-elected in [[1908 Canadian federal election|1908]] and [[1911 Canadian federal election|1911]]. He did not run in [[1917 Canadian federal election|1917]], but was elected again in [[1921 Canadian federal election|1921]]. In April 1923, he was appointed Minister without Portfolio and [[List of Canadian Ministers of National Defence|Minister of National Defence]] (Acting). From August 1923 to 1926, he was the Minister of National Defence.

== Electoral record ==
{{1925 Canadian federal election/Antigonish—Guysborough}}
{{1921 Canadian federal election/Pictou}}
{{CanElec1-by|6 September 1923|On Mr. MacDonald's acceptance of an office of emolument under the Crown, 15 August 1923}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|[[Edward Mortimer MacDonald]]|acclaimed}}
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{{1917 Canadian federal election/Pictou}}
{{1911 Canadian federal election/Pictou}}
{{1908 Canadian federal election/Pictou}}
{{1904 Canadian federal election/Pictou}}
{{1900 Canadian federal election/Pictou}}

== References ==
* {{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/prominentpeopleo00stjouoft|title=Prominent people of the Maritime Provinces (in business and professional life)|work=[[Internet Archive]]|year=1922}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book |last1=Macdonald |first1=Edward Mortimer |title=Recollections : political and personal |date=1938 |publisher=Ryerson Press |location=Toronto |url=https://archive.org/details/recollectionspol00macduoft}}

== External links ==
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=10742}}

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[[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada]]
[[Category:Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs]]
[[Category:Canadian King's Counsel]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]
[[Category:19th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly]]

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