Francis Theodore Frost

December 21, 1843 (age 72)

Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada

Frost manufactured farm implements in Smith Falls. He was reeve of Smiths Falls from 1876 to 1883 and became the town"s first mayor in 1883. Frost also served as warden for Lanark County. Frost was defeated three times (in the 1878, 1882, and 1891 elections) before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1896 federal election in the Ontario riding of Leeds North and Grenville North. A Liberal, he was defeated in the 1900 federal election. He was summoned to the Canadian Senate in 1903 and represented the senatorial division of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario. He died in office in 1916.

Francis Theodore Frost

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Member of Parliament

Background

Born in Smiths Falls, Canada West, the son of Ebenezer Frost and Caroline Harwood, he was educated in Smiths Falls, Coventry, Vermont and Potsdam, New New York

Education

Studied at Smiths Falls Grammar School. Saint Lawrence Academy, Potsdam, New New York Smiths Falls first mayor.

Career

Frost manufactured farm implements in Smith Falls. He was reeve of Smiths Falls from 1876 to 1883 and became the town"s first mayor in 1883. Frost also served as warden for Lanark County.

Frost was defeated three times (in the 1878, 1882, and 1891 elections) before being elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1896 federal election in the Ontario riding of Leeds North and Grenville North.

A Liberal, he was defeated in the 1900 federal election. He was summoned to the Canadian Senate in 1903 and represented the senatorial division of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario.

He died in office in 1916.

Membership

Club: Rideau, Ottawa.

Club: Rideau, Ottawa.

Connections

Spouse 1868, Maria East. Powell, of Madrid, New New York

Spouse:: Maria East. Powell

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