CARMAN MILLER
Canadian Encyclopedia
01-01-2002
Abbott, Sir John Joseph Caldwell

Author: CARMAN MILLER

Abbott, Sir John Joseph Caldwell , lawyer, professor, politician, prime minister (b at St Andrews East [St-Andr-Est], Lower Canada 12 Mar 1821; d at Montral 30 Oct 1893). A graduate of McGill College, he was admitted to the bar 1847 and taught at McGill from 1853, serving as dean of the law faculty 1855-80. Although he signed the Annexation Manifesto in 1849, he quickly recanted and during theTRENT AFFAIR of 1861 he raised and commanded a militia force to patrol the border with the US. He sat in the legislative assembly, and later in the House of ...

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