Daniel Lionel Hanington, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Daniel Lionel Hanington

Canadian judge

Date of Birth: 27-Jun-1835

Place of Birth: Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada

Date of Death: 05-May-1909

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Daniel Lionel Hanington

  • Daniel Lionel Hanington (June 27, 1835 – May 5, 1909) was a New Brunswick, Canada politician and jurist. He was born at Shediac, New Brunswick, the son of Daniel Hanington, and was educated there and at Mount Allison Academy in Sackville.
  • He went on to study law and was called to the New Brunswick bar in 1861.
  • In that same year, he married Emily Myers Wetmore.
  • He served as a school trustee for several years and was clerk for the Westmorland County court from 1867 to 1870. Hanington ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the provincial legislature for Westmorland in 1870 but was elected in an 1870 by-election as a Liberal-Conservative.
  • He was defeated in 1874 then regained his seat in 1878 and entered the cabinet of Premier John James Fraser as minister without portfolio and succeeded Fraser as premier in 1882.
  • Hanington was sympathetic to Acadian rights and appointed a member of that community, Pierre-Amand Landry, to the senior cabinet position of provincial secretary.
  • However, Hanington faced a leader of the opposition, Andrew G.
  • Blair who had organised the Liberal Party into a powerful force.
  • In 1883, Blair defeated Hanington's Conservative government in a Motion of No Confidence and won the subsequent election.
  • Hanington continued as leader of the opposition but was unable to defeat Blair's Liberals in the 1886 election.
  • He remained in the legislature until 1896 when he accepted an appointment to the bench as a member of the province's Supreme Court. He was the presiding judge at the last trial of Tom Collins.

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