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John Mercer Johnson

JOHNSON, John Mercer, Canadian statesman, born in Liverpool, England, in 1818; died in Northumberland, New Brunswick, 9 November, 1868. He came with his father to New Brunswick at an early age, was educated in the Northumberland county grammar school, and admitted to the bar in 1840. He was soon afterward elected a member of the Provincial legislature, made postmaster-general in 1847, and then speaker of the house, attorney-general, and in 1854 solicitor-general. He was a member of the conference that met in Quebec in 1864, and of the London conference, which settled the details of the confederation act. When the Union was accomplished he was elected a member of the Dominion parliament for Northumberland.

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