Law Atlas

How The Law Decides
Sign In
Text size
100%
Theme
Jurists

James Maclennan

Modern Constitutional and Supreme Court Judges of the Americas

Citation Formats

General Reference

APA Style

BibTeX

James Maclennan (1833-1915) was a Canadian lawyer, politician and Puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, born in Lancaster, Upper Canada, who earned a Bachelor of Arts from Queen's University in 1849 and was called to the bar in 1857. He practiced law with Oliver Mowat in Toronto until 1888, when he moved to the Ontario Court of Appeal, and he twice won and twice lost contested elections to the House of Commons for Victoria North in 1874. In 1905 he was appointed a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, serving until his retirement in 1909.

Comments (0)
No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.
Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)
No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.

View At A Past Year

The atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.