Thomas Henry Macpherson was a Scottish

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-born merchant and political figure in Ontario

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, Canada. He represented Hamilton

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 in the Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1896 to 1900 as a Liberal

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He was born in Perth

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. Macpherson was employed at a banking house in England

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 and came to Ontario in 1871. He became the senior member of a wholesale grocery in Hamilton

Hamilton, Ontario

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. Macpherson served as president of the Hamilton Board of Trade.