Edward C. Campbell

Edward C. Campbell
Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
for Niagara
In office
1841 (1841) – September 1842 (1842-09)
(Election overturned)
MonarchVictoria
Governor‑GeneralLord Sydenham
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byHenry John Boulton
Personal details
Born1806 (1806)
DiedJanuary 18, 1860(1860-01-18) (aged 53–54)
Political partyTories
Spouse
Ann Isabella Burns
​
(m. 1830)​
OccupationLawyer, judge, political figure

Edward Clarke Campbell (1806 – January 18, 1860) was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Canada West. He represented the town of Niagara (now Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario) in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1841 to 1842.[1]

Biography

He was the son of Fort Major Donald Campbell,[2] a native of Argyllshire, Scotland. Campbell studied law with Robert Dickson, later practising in partnership with Dickson.[1] In 1830, he married Ann Isabella Burns.[3]

Campbell stood for election to the first Parliament of the Province of Canada in the general election of March and April, 1841. He was declared the victor by one vote, defeating Henry John Boulton. Campbell took his seat in the Assembly and was considered a moderate Tory. He supported the union of the Canadas, and consistently voted in support of the Governor General, Lord Sydenham.[4]

The election results in Niagara were appealed by means of an election petition to the Legislative Assembly. In September 1842, more than a year after the election and after Campbell had sat in the Assembly for the 1841 session, the Assembly ruled that Boulton had been the victor in the election. The Assembly removed Campbell and installed Bouton as the member for Niagara.[5][6][7] Campbell was appointed a judge for the Niagara District court.[1][8]

Campbell was a successful horticulturist and was president of the local Mechanics' Institute for ten years. He served on the bench until his death from pneumonia in 1860.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Carnochan, Janet (1914). History of Niagara (in part) : with fifty illustrations. Toronto: William Briggs. pp. 241, 252. Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2011-01-12.
  2. ^ a b Da Silva, Maria; Hind, Andrew (2009). Ghosts of Niagara-on-the-Lake. Dundurn Press. pp. 90, 175. ISBN 978-1-55488-387-5.
  3. ^ "Local Names". Niagara Gleaner. February 13, 1830.
  4. ^ Paul G. Cornell, Alignment of Political Groups in Canada, 1841–67 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1962; reprinted in paperback 2015), pp. 6, 7, 93, 94.
  5. ^ Cornell, Alignment of Political Groups in Canada, 1841–67, p. 9.
  6. ^ J.O. Côté, Political Appointments and Elections in the Province of Canada, 1841 to 1860, (Quebec: St. Michel and Darveau, 1860), pp. 43–45, 59 notes (24), (25).
  7. ^ Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, from the 8th day of September to the 12th day of October, in the year of Our Lord 1842, pp. 37–38 (September 26, 1842).
  8. ^ Smith, William Henry (1846). Smith's Canadian gazetteer: comprising statistical and general information ... p. 126.


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