Given the question: Alexander Johnston (April 24 1867 November 30 1951) was a Canadian journalist civil servant and politician.Born in Richmond County Nova Scotia Johnston was educated at the Common Schools and St. Francis Xavier College Antigonish Nova Scotia. He was the editor and proprietor of the Sydney Daily Record. He was elected in 1897 to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly but he resigned his seat in 1900 in order to contest the riding of Cape Breton for the Canadian House of Commons. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Office Holder