Alexander Cameron was a physician and political figure in Quebec

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. He represented Huntingdon

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Huntingdon is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The riding was created in 2001 from parts of Beauharnois-Huntingdon and Saint-Jean. It also existed from 1867 to 1989...

 in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 from 1874 to 1892 as a Conservative and then Liberal member.

He was born in Pictou, Nova Scotia

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 and educated at the Pictou Academy

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Pictou Academy , founded in 1816 by the late Dr. Thomas McCulloch, is a secondary school in Pictou, Nova Scotia. Prior to the twentieth century, it was a liberal nonsectarian college, a grammar school, an academy and then a secondary school. Pictou Academy's current principal is James Ryan. The...

 and the University of Glasgow

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. In 1866, he married Elizabeth McKenzie Wallace. He qualified to practise medicine in 1875 and set up practice in Huntingdon

Huntingdon, Quebec

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. Cameron served as a surgeon in the militia. He served as mayor of Huntingdon from 1870 to 1887 and was warden for Huntingdon County

Huntingdon County, Quebec

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 in 1882. He also served as a member of the Council of Public Instruction for Quebec. Cameron was first elected to the Quebec assembly as a Conservative in an 1874 by-election held after the death of Thomas Sanders

Thomas Sanders (politician)

Thomas Sanders was a merchant and political figure in Quebec. He represented Huntingdon in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec from 1871 to 1874 as a Conservative....

. He was reelected in 1875 as a Liberal; that election was appealed but he won the by-election that followed in 1876. Cameron was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1892 and 1897. He died in Montreal

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at the age of 83.