James Ross (Ontario politician)

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

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| name = James Ross

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| constituency_MP = Wellington Centre

| parliament = Canadian

| predecessor = Thomas Sutherland Parker

| successor = George Turner Orton

| term_start = 1869

| term_end = 1874

| birth_date = {{birth date|1817|10|1}}

| birth_place = Arnage, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

| death_date = {{death date and age|1895|7|16|1817|10|1}}

| death_place = Guelph, Ontario, Canada

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| party = Liberal

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James Ross (October 1, 1817 – July 16, 1895) was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Wellington Centre in the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal member from 1869 to 1874.{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=12851|2=James Ross|nolist=yes}}

He was born in Arnage, Aberdeenshire, Scotland in 1817, the son of John Leith Ross, was educated at Marischal College there[http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/mtq?doc=32947 The Canadian parliamentary companion, HJ Morgan (1873)] and came to Upper Canada in 1836. He was reeve for Nichol township from 1854 to 1859 and warden for Wellington County from 1858 to 1859.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=4381 |title=Looking Back : the story of Fergus through the years |access-date=23 July 2006 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304035305/http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=4381 |url-status=dead }} He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada in an 1859 by-election in the North riding of Wellington and served until 1861. Ross also served as Crown Lands Agent. He was first elected to the federal parliament in 1869 after the death of Thomas Sutherland Parker. He lived in Cumnock and later Guelph. Ross died in Guelph at the age of 77.{{cite book |title=The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 |last=Johnson |first=J.K. |year=1968 |publisher=Public Archives of Canada}}