Edmund William Tobin was a Canadian

Canada

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 politician.

Born in Brompton Falls, Canada East

Canada East

Canada East was the eastern portion of the United Province of Canada. It consisted of the southern portion of the modern-day Canadian Province of Quebec, and was primarily a French-speaking region....

, he was a lumber merchant and manufacturer who was President of the Lotbiniere Lumber Company in Lester, Quebec and President of the Trois-Pistoles Pulp Company in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec

Trois-Pistoles, Quebec

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. He was Warden of the County of Richmond in 1897-98 and Mayor of Brompton Falls. He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 for the riding of Richmond—Wolfe

Richmond—Wolfe

For other electoral districts with similar names, see Richmond Richmond–Wolfe was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1997.It was created as by the British North America Act of 1867.It was abolished in 1966 when...

 in the 1900 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1900

The Canadian federal election of 1900 was held on November 7 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 9th Parliament of Canada. As a result of the election, the Liberal Party, led by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier, was re-elected to a second majority government, defeating the...

. A Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

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, he would be re-elected every time for the next 7 elections until being summoned to the Senate of Canada on the advice of William Lyon Mackenzie King

William Lyon Mackenzie King

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s. He served as the tenth Prime Minister of Canada from December 29, 1921 to June 28, 1926; from September 25, 1926 to August 7, 1930; and from October 23, 1935 to November 15, 1948...

 in 1930 representing the senatorial division of Victoria, Quebec. He would serve until his death in 1938.

His grandsons, Edmund Tobin Asselin

Edmund Tobin Asselin

Edmund Tobin Asselin was a Canadian politician, administrator and businessman. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 election as a Member of the Liberal Party representing the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. He was re-elected in 1963.- External links :*...

 (1920–1999) and Joseph Patrick Tobin Asselin (1930–2005), were both Members of Parliament.

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