Given the question: Facts: - party: liberal - monarch: victoria - predecessor: david john donald cameron howard harrison malcolm colin cameron duncan alexander stewart - birth date: 25 march 1838 - relations: john wesley greenway -lrb- son -rrb- - profession: politician - parliament: canadian canadian - order: 7th - spouse: annie hicks 1860 emma essery 1877 - death date: 30 october 1908 - office: premier manitoba for mountain of manitoba member of the legislative assembly of - term end: january 30 , 1908 november 3 , 1904 10 , 1900 september 17 , 1878 october - name: thomas greenway - death place: ottawa , ontario - birth place: kilkhampton , united kingdom - successor: hugh james thomas gordon john macdonald malcolm colin cameron william henry sharpe - riding: huron south lisgar - lieutenant governor: james cox aikins john christian schultz james c. patterson - nationality: canadian - occupation: merchant and farmer - imagesize: 150px - cabinet: minister of the council -lrb- 1888 -- 1900 -rrb- railway commissioner of -lrb- 1891 -- 1900 -rrb- agriculture -lrb- 1888 -- 1900 -rrb- president - children: 14 - term start: january 3 , 1904 december 16 , 1879 19 , 1888 february 11 , 1875 november - image: thomas greenway.png - religion: methodist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of thomas greenway .
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for the american character actor , see tom greenway .thomas greenway -lrb- march 25 , 1838 -- october 30 , 1908 -rrb- was a politician , merchant and farmer .he served as the seventh premier of manitoba , canada , from 1888 to 1900 .a liberal , his ministry formally ended manitoba 's non-partisan government , although a '' de facto '' two-party system had existed for some years .