John Coyne (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Toronto Township, Ontario, Ontario, Canada
About John Coyne (politician)
- John Coyne (July 21, 1836 – November 16, 1873) was a Canadian barrister, and Peel County's first representative in the Ontario Legislature. A native of Toronto Township, the son of Mr.
- and Mrs.
- Edward Coyne, he received his education in Brampton at Brampton Public School.
- He was educated as a lawyer, and called to the Bar of Upper Canada in 1864.
- Coyne also served as reeve of Brampton. Entering provincial politics in 1867, as a Conservative, he beat out Liberal candidate Robert Smith by just 46 votes (1118 to 1072).
- The number 1118 had a strange, but merely coincidental, attraction to him, as proved by the next election in 1871.
- Posed against Chinguacousy's T.
- O.
- Bowles, he won again with 1118 votes, against 1059 Liberal nods.
- Coyne married Mary Catherine Scott, the youngest daughter of Brampton resident John Scott, in October 1867.
- He died due to a short illness in 1873, after serving only two years of his second term.
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