Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone Politician

Lewis Wilkieson Johnstone (10 April 1862 – 9 March 1936) was a Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and became a physician and surgeon.He is the grandson of Edmund Murray Dodd (1797-1876), who represented Sydney, Nova Scotia in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly and served as a Judge in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. He is also a descendant of David Mathews, the Loyalist Mayor of New York City under the British during the American Revolution.Johnstone attended King's College at Windsor, Nova Scotia, then in 1886 graduated in medicine from Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He became a municipal councillor and mayor of Sydney Mines.He was first elected to Parliament at the Cape Breton North—Victoria riding in the 1925 general election then re-elected there in 1926 and 1930. Johnstone was defeated in the 1935 election by Daniel Alexander Cameron of the Liberal party.