John Easton Mills

John Easton Mills

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honorific-prefix = Mayor
name = John Easton Mills
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order = 5th Mayor of Montreal
term_start = 1846
term_end = 1847
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predecessor = James Ferrier
successor = Joseph Bourret
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birth_date = 14 October 1796
birth_place = Tolland, Massachusetts, United States
death_date = death date and age|1847|11|12|1796|10|14
death_place = Montreal, Lower Canada
party = Reformist
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profession = businessman
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John Easton Mills (October 1796 - November 12 1847) served briefly as mayor of Montreal, Quebec.

In March 1846, Montreal city council deadlocked on the choice of a mayor. Mills had ten votes, and incumbent mayor James Ferrier had nine, but Ferrier voted for himself twice, in accordance with existing rules. Municipal paralysis ensued until December 1846, when Mills was elected decisively.

In 1847 there was a major outbreak of typhus in Montreal among Irish immigrants. Mills organized measures to contain the epidemic and volunteered to tend to the sick, whereupon he contracted the disease himself and died after less than one year in office.


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