Lemuel Cushing Jr.

Lemuel Cushing (1842 – March 1, 1881) was a lawyer and politician in Quebec. He represented Argenteuil in the House of Commons of Canada from 1874 to 1875 as a Liberal member.^[1]

He was born in Chatham, Canada East,^[1] the son of Lemuel Cushing and Catherine Hutchins, was educated at McGill University and was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1865.^[2] He practised law in Montreal.^[3] In 1869, Cushing married Ellen Myra Macdougall.^[4] He was president of the Montreal Y.M.C.A. from 1869 to 1870.^[2] Cushing was defeated by John Abbott in the 1874 federal election. After Abbott was unseated after an appeal, Cushing won the subsequent by-election in October 1874. The results of the by-election were declared void after an appeal and Thomas Christie was elected in December 1875.^[1]

In 1877, he published The Genealogy of the Cushing Family.

Cushing died in Montreal at the age of 39.^[3]

Electoral record

By-election: On Mr. Abbott being unseated, on petition:

6 October 1874
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal	Lemuel Cushing, Jr.	840	53.30
	Unknown	William Owens	736	46.70

v t e 1874 Canadian federal election: Argenteuil
Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Liberal-Conservative	John Abbott	731	50.14
	Unknown	Lemuel Cushing Jr.	727	49.86
Source: Canadian Elections Database^[5]

^ ^a ^b ^c Lemuel Cushing Jr. – Parliament of Canada biography
^ ^a ^b The Canadian parliamentary companion for 1875, HJ Morgan
^ ^a ^b Johnson, J.K. (1968). The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967. Public Archives of Canada.
^ The Genealogy of the Cushing Family (1877) Cushing, Lemuel p. 101
^ Sayers, Anthony M. "1874 Federal Election". Canadian Elections Database. Archived from the original on 22 January 2024.

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