Hugh John Macdonald Politician

Sir Hugh John Macdonald, PC (March 13, 1850 – March 29, 1929) was the only surviving son of the first Prime Minister of Canada, Sir John A. Macdonald, and was a politician in his own right, serving as a member of the Canadian House of Commons and a federal cabinet minister, and briefly as the eighth Premier of Manitoba.

Personal facts

Hugh John Macdonald
Birth dateMarch 13, 1850
Birth place
Upper Canada , Kingston Ontario
Date of deathMarch 29, 1929
Place of death
Manitoba , Winnipeg

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Office holder

monarch
Queen Victoria
office
Premier of Manitoba
Attorney-General (1900)
Minister of the Interior (1896)
Municipal Commissioner (1900)
President of the Council (1900)
Railway Commissioner (1900)
Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs (1896)
party
Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942)
relation
Agnes Macdonald 1st Baroness Macdonald of Earnscliffe
successor

Hugh John Macdonald on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/macdonald_hj.shtml