John Wickwire

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| image =

| name = John Wickwire

| birth_date = {{birth date|1899|12|21}}

| birth_place = Milford, Nova Scotia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1994|8|20|1899|12|21}}

| death_place = Liverpool, Nova Scotia

| office = MLA for Queens

| term_start = 1974

| term_end = 1978

| predecessor = Floyd MacDonald

| successor = John Leefe

| party = Progressive Conservative

| religion =

| occupation = physician, cardiologist

}}

John Cox Wickwire (December 21, 1899 – August 20, 1994) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Queens in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1974 to 1978. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia.{{cite web|url=https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/constituencies/pdfs/queens.pdf|title=Electoral History for Queens|publisher=Nova Scotia Legislative Library|accessdate=2018-04-04|archive-date=2018-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404200806/https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/constituencies/pdfs/queens.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Born in 1899 at Milford, Nova Scotia, Wickwire was a graduate of Dalhousie University, and Harvard Medical School.{{cite book|last1=Elliott|first1=Shirley B.|title=The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1983 : a biographical directory|url=https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/233|accessdate=2018-04-04|year=1984|publisher=Public Archives of Nova Scotia|isbn=0-88871-050-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/233 233]}} He married Dorothy Charlotte Fraser in 1929. Dr. John C. Wickwire Academy in Liverpool, Nova Scotia is named in his honour.{{cite web|url=http://www.djcwa.ednet.ns.ca/node/247|title=About us: Wickwire family history|publisher=Dr. John C. Wickwire Academy|accessdate=2015-06-06}}

A member of Liverpool Town Council for five years, Wickwire entered provincial politics in the 1974 election, winning the Queens riding by 256 votes.{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201974.pdf|title=Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1974|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|year=1974|page=108|accessdate=2015-06-06}} He served one term, and did not reoffer in the 1978 election. Wickwire died on August 20, 1994, in Liverpool.{{cite news|title=John Cox Wickwire|work=The Chronicle Herald|date=August 22, 1994}}