Frank Killam was a Canadian

Canada

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 politician and a member of the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 for the riding of Yarmouth

Yarmouth (electoral district)

For the current provincial electoral district, see Yarmouth Yarmouth was a federal electoral district in Nova Scotia, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1917. It was created by the British North America Act of 1867. It consisted of the County of Yarmouth...

 in Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia

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He was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia

Yarmouth is a town and fishing port located on the Gulf of Maine in rural southwestern Nova Scotia, Canada. It is the shire town of Yarmouth County. The town is located in the heart of the world's largest lobster fishing grounds and has Canada's highest lobster catch.- History :The townsite may...

 in 1843, the son of Thomas Killam

Thomas Killam

Thomas Killam was a Nova Scotia shipbuilder and political figure. He represented Yarmouth as an Anti-Confederate member from 1867 to 1868....

 and Elizabeth Gale Dudman, and was educated in Yarmouth and Sackville, New Brunswick

Sackville, New Brunswick

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. Killam entered business in Yarmouth. In 1868, he married Ellen Hood. Following the death of his father, he ran for his father's former seat in the 1st Canadian Parliament

1st Canadian Parliament

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 in a by-election held on April 20, 1869. He was elected as a member of the Liberal Party

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Like his father, he had worked as a merchant and a shipowner. He was re-elected three times before being defeated in the 1882 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1882

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. In 1870, he was the president of the Western Counties Railway Company.