- Frank Killam
Frank Killam was a Canadian politician and a member of the
Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Yarmouth inNova Scotia .He was born in
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1843. After the death of his father,Thomas Killam , he ran for his seat in the1st Canadian Parliament in a by-election. He was elected as a member of the Liberal Party onApril 20 ,1869 .Like his father, he had worked as a merchant and a shipowner. He was re-elected three times before being defeated in the 1882 federal election. In 1870, he was the president of the Western Counties Railway Company. He died on
April 23 ,1911 .External links
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?Language=E&query=7666&s=M Canadian Library of Parliament]
* [http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=38643 Dictionary of Canadian Biography entry on the father of Frank Killiam]
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