Adam Crooks (politician)

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Adam Crooks
Source: Library and Archives Canada

Adam Crooks LLB (December 11, 1827 – December 28, 1885) was an Ontario Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Toronto West from 1871 to 1874 and moved to the riding of Oxford South from 1875 to 1886. Crooks was an MLA for the Ontario Liberal Party

Crooks was born in West Flamboro, Ontario, the son of James Crooks. He studied at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. During his time in Toronto, he studied law and was called to the bar in 1851. During the early 1860s, he successfully appealed a lower court decision against the Commercial Bank of Canada before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in England. In 1863, he was named Queen's Counsel. He served as Attorney General from 1871 to 1872 and provincial treasurer from 1872 to 1877. Crooks played a major role in developing the 1876 liquor licence act, also known as the Crooks Act, which attempted to control the sale of alcohol within the province. He also served as the first Minister of Education in Ontario, appointed in 1876, after the retirement of Rev. Dr. Egerton Ryerson, who was Chief Superintendent.^[1] Near the end of his life, he suffered from problems with his physical and mental health and was forced to retire from public life. He died in Hartford, Connecticut.

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Preceded by Edmund Burke Wood	Treasurer of Ontario 1872–1877	Succeeded by Samuel Wood

v t e Attorney General of Ontario

Attorneys-General of Upper Canada	White Gray Scott Firth Robinson (acting) G.D. Boulton Robinson H.G. Boulton Jameson Hagerman Draper

Attorneys-General of the Province of Canada (Canada West)	Draper Baldwin Richards J.A. Macdonald J.S. Macdonald

Attorneys-General of Ontario	J.S. Macdonald Crooks Mowat Hardy Latchford Whitney Foy Lucas Raney Nickle Price Roebuck Conant Blackwell Porter Roberts Cass Wishart Lawrence Bales Welch Clement McMurtry Scott Hampton Boyd Harnick Flaherty Young Bryant Bentley Gerretsen

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1. ↑ http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/on-line-exhibits/education/crooks.aspx

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Name	Crooks, Adam
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Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	December 11, 1827
Place of birth
Date of death	December 28, 1885
Place of death

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