James Ewen Matthews (1869-1950)

Insurance agent, MP (1936-1940), MP (1940-1945), MP (1945-1949), MP (1949-1953).

Born at Albany, Prince Edward Island on 17 August 1869, son of Donald Matthews and Flora MacMillan, he was educated atPrince of Wales College (Charlottetown) after which he taught school at Charlottetown, served as a Charlottetown alderman, and became a journalist. In 1897, he married Deborah Lowther, with whom he had a son and two daughters. He became an insurance underwriter at Brandon, Manitoba in 1911.

He was President of the Brandon Board of Trade (1923) and Vice-President (1925). He was elected to the House of Commons for Brandon in November 1938, re-elected in 1940, 1945, and 1949.

He died, while still a Member, on 24 November 1950.

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Profile revised: 6 December 2009

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