George Oscar Alcorn
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Born in Lennoxville, Canada East, (now Sherbrooke, Quebec),[1] the son of Thomas Coke Alcorn and Martha A. Bartlett, he was educated at the Toronto Grammar and Model Grammar Schools. A lawyer, he was admitted to the bar in 1871 and was created a King's Counsel in 1890. He practised law in Belleville, Ontario and Picton, Ontario. He was president of the Prince Edward Liberal-Conservative Association.[2]
He was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the Ontario riding of Prince Edward in the 1900 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in the 1904 election but was defeated in the 1908 election.[1]
In 1872, he married Sara Jane Leavitt. In 1910, Alcorn was named Master in Ordinary for the Supreme Court of Ontario and served in that post until 1923.[3]
Electoral record
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- ↑ a b c George Oscar Alcorn – Parliament of Canada biography
- ↑ The Canadian men and women of the time : a handbook of Canadian biography of living characters
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