Background
He was born in 1862 to Robert Kirk Tory and Anorah Ferguson in Guysborough County and lived in the village of Guysborough.
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James Tory
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He attended McGill University in Montreal and worked at Sun Life Assurance Company.
Career
Tory served as a Liberal Modern Language Association for Guysborough County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1911 to 1925. He was a minister without portfolio in the province"s Executive Council from 1921 to 1925. Tory was appointed the 14th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and served from 1925 to 1930.
He died in Halifax.
Tory"s younger brothers were Henry Marshall Tory, founding president of the University of Alberta and the National Research Council of Canada, and John A. Tory Senior (1869–1950). A portrait of him hangs in the Tupper Building, Dalhouise University, Nova Scotia.
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Born
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Nationality
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Political Party
Nova Scotia Liberal Party