Alexander Robertson (Canadian politician)

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Alexander Robertson (December 5, 1838 – February 29, 1888) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Hastings West in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1879 to 1882 and in the Canadian House of Commons from 1882 to 1888 as a Conservative member.

He was born in Trenton, Upper Canada, the son of William Robertson, a Scottish-born lumber merchant. He was educated in Belleville, went on to study law, was called to the bar in 1864 and set up practice in Belleville. Robertson served on the Belleville town council from 1864 to 1869 and was Belleville's mayor in 1870 and from 1878 to 1879. He served as a captain in the militia during the Fenian raids. He married Mary Georgina Stewart in 1870. In 1882, he resigned his seat in the provincial assembly to run for a seat in the House of Commons. Robertson was a prominent member of the Masonic order. He died in office in 1888.

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• Political biography from the Library of Parliament
• A Cyclopæedia of Canadian biography being chiefly men of the time ..., GM Rose (1886)
• The Canadian biographical dictionary and portrait gallery of eminent and self-made men ... (1880)