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About John Hume Agnew
- John Hume Agnew (October 18, 1863 – November 9, 1908) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1903 until his death as a member of the Conservative Party, and was a prominent cabinet minister in the government of Rodmond Roblin. Agnew was born in Prince Albert, Ontario County, Canada West (now Ontario), the son of Dr.
- Niven Agnew and Jane Somerville Ross, and was educated at Upper Canada College.
- Agnew moved to Winnipeg with his family in 1879; he studied law, articling with James Albert Manning Aikins, and was called to the Manitoba bar in 1884.
- He practised law in Virden, Manitoba.
- In 1888, he married Anna M.
- Dickson.
- Agnew was a school trustee in Virden for over ten years, and was a town councillor for two.
- In religion, he was a member of the Church of England.He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1903 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate F.W.
- Clinigan by 25 votes in the Virden constituency.
- He was appointed to Roblin's cabinet on March 2, 1904 as Provincial Treasurer.
- New cabinet appointees were required to seek a renewed mandate from their electors in this period of Canadian history, and Agnew was returned for Virden without opposition on March 12.He was re-elected with an increased majority in the 1907 election, and was retained as Provincial Treasurer in the legislative sitting that following.
- He died in office in 1908.
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