Edward Carter was a member of the Canadian House of Commons

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 for the Brome electoral district

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 in Quebec. He also represented Montréal Centre

Sainte-Anne (provincial electoral district)

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 in the Legislative Assembly of Quebec

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 from 1867 to 1871. His name appears as Edward Brock Carter in some sources.

Born in Trois-Rivières, Lower Canada

Trois-Rivières, Quebec

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 (now Quebec), the son of George Carter and Mary Ann Short, he was educated in Trois-Rivières and at the Collège de Nicolet. He worked as a manager in a commercial establishment from 1838 to 1840, then articled in law with Edward Short

Edward Short (Canadian judge)

Edward Short was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Quebec.He was born in Bristol, England in 1806, the son of John Quirk Short and the grandson of Robert Quirk Short, and came to Canada with his family. He studied law in Trois-Rivières and was called to the Bar of Quebec in 1826...

, Thomas Cushing Aylwin

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, F.W. Primrose and John Rose, was called to the Lower Canada bar in 1845 and set up practice in Montreal

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. Carter was crown clerk and associate clerk of the peace for Montreal district from 1862 to 1866. In 1862, he was named Queen's Counsel

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. Carter was an associate professor of criminal law and later professor emeritus at McGill University

McGill University

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. He published A Treatise on the Law and Practice on Summary Convictions and Orders by Justices of the Peace in Upper and Lower Canada in 1856.

Carter was defeated in Montréal Centre and in Châteauguay when he ran for reelection to the Quebec assembly in 1871. He served in the 1st Canadian Parliament

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 for the Conservative party

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 from 17 November 1871, replacing Christopher Dunkin

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. He was re-elected in the 1872 federal election

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 and left politics after serving his full term in the 2nd Canadian Parliament

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.

He was a governor for Bishop's College

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and served as solicitor for the Montreal diocese of the Anglican church. In 1850, he married Mary Jane Kerr. Carter died in Montreal at the age of 61.