Thomas Andrew Tweed was a merchant and political figure in the Northwest Territories, Canada. He represented Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat (N.W.T. electoral district)

Medicine Hat was a former territorial electoral district in Northwest Territories, Canada. The electoral district was created with the passage of the North-West Representation Act of 1888. The primary population center and the districts name sake was the city of Medicine Hat...

 in the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories from 1888 to 1894 as a Conservative.

He was born in Kingston

Kingston, Ontario

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, Canada West, the son of Thomas Tweed and Jane Hiditch, and was educated there. He served in the Red River Expedition

Wolseley Expedition

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 of 1870 with Garnet Wolseley. Tweed was employed in cotton mills in Montreal

Montreal

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 and Cornwall, Ontario

Cornwall, Ontario

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, reaching the position of manager. In 1873, he married Helen Sutherland. He went west to Medicine Hat

Medicine Hat, Alberta

Medicine Hat, known to locals as "The Hat", is a city of 61,097 people located in the southeastern part of the province of Alberta, Canada. It is enclaved within Cypress County along with the nearby Town of Redcliff, although neither is part of the county....

 in 1883, where he established a general store in partnership with James Alexander Lougheed

James Alexander Lougheed

Sir James Alexander Lougheed, KCMG, PC, QC was a businessman and politician from Alberta, Canada.-Early Life:Lougheed was born in Brampton, Canada West, to Irish Protestant parents. The family moved to Weston, Canada West , when Lougheed was a child, and he attended King Street Public School Sir...

. He later established a large ranch in partnership with John Ewart. Tweed served as postmaster for Medicine Hat. He was also president of the Medicine Hat Board of Trade. He served as president of the Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party

Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party

The Northwest Territories Liberal-Conservative Party also known formally as the Liberal-Conservative Association prior to 1903 and the Territorial Conservative Association after 1903, was a short lived political party in the Northwest Territories, Canada. from 1897-1905...

from 1903 to 1905. Tweed died in Montreal of heart failure at the age of 52.