Frank Killam | |
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MP for Yarmouth | |
In office 1869–1882 |
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Preceded by | Thomas Killam |
Succeeded by | Joseph R. Kinney |
Personal details | |
Born | September 3, 1843 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia |
Died | April 23, 1911 Yarmouth, Nova Scotia |
(aged 67)
Political party | Liberal |
Spouse(s) | Ellen Hood |
Residence | Yarmouth, Nova Scotia |
Occupation | Merchant & shipowner |
Religion | Methodist |
Frank Killam (September 3, 1843 – April 23, 1911) was a Canadian politician and a member of the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Yarmouth in Nova Scotia.[1]
He was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1843, the son of Thomas Killam[1] and Elizabeth Gale Dudman, and was educated in Yarmouth and Sackville, New Brunswick. Killam entered business in Yarmouth. In 1868, he married Ellen Hood.[2] Following the death of his father, he ran for his father's former seat in the 1st Canadian Parliament in a by-election held on April 20, 1869. He was elected as a member of the Liberal Party.[1]
Like his father, he had worked as a merchant and a shipowner. He was re-elected three times before being defeated in the 1882 federal election.[1] In 1870, he was the president of the Western Counties Railway Company.[3]