Peter Adolphus McIntyre

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1840–1910)}}

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| honorific-prefix = The Hon.

| name = Peter Adolphus McIntyre

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| office = 7th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island

| predecessor = George William Howlan

| successor = Donald Alexander MacKinnon

| term_start = May 23, 1899

| term_end = October 3, 1904

| monarch = Victoria
Edward VII

| governor_general = The Earl of Minto

| premier = Donald Farquharson
Arthur Peters

| constituency_MP1 = King's County

| parliament1 = Canadian

| alongside1 = Daniel Davies

| predecessor1 = Augustine Colin Macdonald

| successor1 = Augustine Colin Macdonald
Ephraim Bell Muttart

| term_start1 = January 22, 1874

| term_end1 = September 17, 1878

| alongside2 = James Edwin Robertson

| predecessor2 = Augustine Colin Macdonald
Ephraim Bell Muttart

| successor2 = Augustine Colin Macdonald
John McLean

| term_start2 = June 20, 1882

| term_end2 = March 5, 1891

| birth_date = {{birth date|1840|07|19}}

| birth_place = Peterville, Prince Edward Island Colony

| death_date = {{death date and age|1910|07|16|1840|07|19}}

| death_place = Souris, Prince Edward Island, Dominion of Canada

| nationality = Canadian

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• {{marriage|Agnes McDonald|1871}}
• {{marriage|Barbara Rigg|1886}}

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| party = Liberal

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| residence = Souris, Prince Edward Island

| alma_mater = Quebec Seminary
Laval University
McGill University
Saint Dunstan's University

| occupation = public servant, physician and coroner

| profession = Politician

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Peter Adolphus McIntyre (July 19, 1840 – July 16, 1910) was a Canadian politician, public servant, physician and coroner.[http://www.gov.pe.ca/olg/gallery/picture_setup.php?lg=20McIntyre Prince Edward Island:Lieutenant Governors Gallery:Peter Adolphus McIntyre], Government of Prince Edward Island, accessed December 26, 2007{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=9961|nolist=yes}}

Born at Peterville in Kings County, Prince Edward Island, McIntyre's paternal grandfather came to Canada from Scotland around 1785 and settled at Cable Head, PEI. McIntyre's great-grandfather on his mother's side fought under General Wolfe at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.

McIntyre was educated at the Quebec Seminary, Laval University and McGill University where he earned his medical degree in 1867. He returned to Prince Edward Island to begin his practice. He served as Kings County coroner for several years.

In 1872 he was appointed one of the commissioners overlooking the construction of the Prince Edward Island Railway and was railway commander.

Following Prince Edward Island's entry into Canadian confederation which occurred, in part, as a result of the debt incurred by the colony for the railway's construction, McIntyre was elected in the 1874 federal election to the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal Member of Parliament for Kings County. He was defeated in the 1878 federal election but regained his seat in 1882 and was re-elected in 1887. After being defeated in the next two elections, McIntyre was appointed the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island by the Laurier government in 1899. He served in office until 1904 and died six years later in Souris, P.E.I.

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