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{{Short description|Canadian politician (1825–1893)}}
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| name             = Michael Patrick Ryan
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| constituency_MP  = [[Montreal West (electoral district)|Montreal West]]
| parliament       = Canadian
| predecessor      = [[D'Arcy McGee]]
| successor        = [[John Young (Canadian politician)|John Young]]
| term_start       = 1868
| term_end         = 1872
| constituency_MP2 = [[Montreal Centre]]
| parliament2      = Canadian
| predecessor2     = [[Thomas Workman (Canadian politician)|Thomas Workman]]
| successor2       = [[Bernard Devlin]]
| term_start2      = 1872
| term_end2        = 1875
| predecessor3     = [[Bernard Devlin]]
| successor3       = [[John Joseph Curran]]
| term_start3      = 1878
| term_end3        = 1882
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1825|09|29|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = Pallis, Donohill, [[County Tipperary]], Ireland
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1893|01|18|1825|09|29|df=yes}}
| death_place      = [[Montreal|Montreal, Quebec]], Canada<ref name="johnson"/>
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| spouse           = Margaret Brennan
| party            = [[Liberal-Conservative Party|Liberal-Conservative]]
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'''Michael Patrick Ryan''' (29 September 1825 &ndash; 18 January 1893) was an Irish-born Canadian businessman and political figure. He represented [[Montreal West (electoral district)|Montreal West]] in the [[1st Canadian Parliament]] and [[Montreal Centre]] in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] from 1872 to 1874 and from 1879 to 1882 as a [[Liberal-Conservative]] member.<ref name="parl">{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=15896|nolist=yes}}</ref>

He was born in Pallis, [[Donohill]], [[County Tipperary]], in Ireland in 1825,<ref name="parl"/> the son of William Ryan,<ref name="johnson">{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |editor-last=Johnson |editor-first=J.K. |year=1968 |location=Ottawa |publisher=Public Archives of Canada |page=515 |url=https://archive.org/details/canadiandirector0000publ/page/515 |url-access=registration}}</ref> and came to [[Lower Canada]] with his family in 1840, settling near [[Chambly, Quebec|Chambly]]. He became a merchant in [[Montreal]]. In 1850, he married Margaret Brennan.<ref name="johnson"/> He was elected to the city council in 1852 and served as captain in the local militia. Ryan also was a member of the Council of the Board of Trade in Montreal and a director for the Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway.

Following the assassination of Liberal-Conservative [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] [[Thomas D'Arcy McGee]] in April 1868, Ryan was selected by the party to run in the ensuing [[by-election]]. Due to the circumstances of the by-election Ryan's candidacy was unopposed and he was elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]] by acclamation.

Ryan retired from business in 1875.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.08546/311 |pages=301-302 |title=The Canadian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-made Men |year=1881 |publisher=American Biographical Publishing Company |volume=Quebec and the Maritime Provinces |location=Toronto}}</ref> In 1882, he was named customs collector at Montreal<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.46484/72 |page=62 |title=The civil service list of Canada, 1892 ... |date=1893 |location=Ottawa |publisher=S.E. Dawson}}</ref> and served in that post until his death in January 1893.<ref name="johnson"/>

{{1874 Canadian federal election/Montreal Centre}}

By-election: On election being declared void, 31 October 1874

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{{CANelec|CA|Liberal|[[Bernard Devlin]] |2,303}}
{{CANelec|CA|Liberal-Conservative|Michael Patrick Ryan |2,220}}
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[[Category:Irish emigrants to pre-Confederation Quebec]]
[[Category:Immigrants to Lower Canada]]
[[Category:19th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]