Background
He was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1843, the son of Thomas Killam and Elizabeth Gale Dudman, and was educated in Yarmouth and Sackville, New Brunswick.
He was born in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia in 1843, the son of Thomas Killam and Elizabeth Gale Dudman, and was educated in Yarmouth and Sackville, New Brunswick.
Killam entered business in Yarmouth. On September 21, 1867, he lost his left arm when a cannon prematurely detonated during an election celebration. The accident killed one person.
Following the death of his father, he ran for his father"s former seat in the 1st Canadian Parliament in a by-election held on April 20, 1869.
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.
In 1870, he was the president of the Western Counties Railway Company.
He was elected as a member of the Liberal Party.