Matthew Robert Duncan
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Matthew Robert Duncan | |
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Member of Parliament for Grey North | |
In office December 1921 – September 1926 | |
Preceded by | William Sora Middlebro |
Succeeded by | William Pattison Telford, Jr. |
Personal details | |
Born | Matthew Robert Duncan 8 July 1863 Owen Sound, Canada West |
Died | 23 February 1938 | (aged 74)
Political party | Conservative |
Spouse(s) | Margaret E. Witherspoon m. 26 April 1899[1] |
Profession | merchant |
Matthew Robert Duncan (8 July 1863 – 23 February 1938) was a Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Owen Sound, Canada West and became a merchant.
Duncan attended high school at Owen Sound. He became president of Owen Sound Cereal Mills Ltd. He served in Owen Sound municipal politics as an alderman for eleven years and in 1905 and 1906 was the city's mayor.[1]
He was first elected to Parliament at the Grey North riding in the 1921 general election and re-elected in 1925. In the 1926 election he was defeated by William Pattison Telford, Jr. of the Liberals.
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