death_date successor death_place birth_place party office birth_date term_start order image article_title term_end name
01 april 1884 john thomas grange richard william scott napanee , ontario hunterdon county , new jersey conservative member speaker of the legislative assembly of ontario of the legislative assembly of ontario for lennox 12 august 1812 september 3 , 1867 december 27 , 1867 1st john stevenson ontario.jpg john stevenson -lrb- canadian politician -rrb-
 february 25 , 1871 february 15 , 1871 john stevenson
john stevenson -lrb- canadian politician -rrb-

john stevenson -lrb- august 12 , 1812 -- april 1 , 1884 -rrb- was the first speaker of the legislative assembly of ontario from 1867 to 1871 and served as conservative mpp for lennox from 1867 to 1871 .
born in hunterdon county , new jersey , stevenson 's family moved to new york state -lrb- likely to the albany , new york area and finally to upper canada .
he was educated in brockville and taught school briefly .
steveson worked in various trades before entering politics : flour mill operator foundry owner axe shopkeeper brush factory owner lumberman shipping company owner in 1842 , he married phoebe eliza hall .
stevenson also served as a justice of the peace and as reeve for napanee .
from 1863 to 1865 , he was warden for lennox and addington county .
after his defeat in 1871 by john thomas grange , he ran for the lennox seat in the canadian house of commons in 1872 as an independent , losing to richard john cartwright , formerly a conservative , now a liberal .
in 1878 , he campaigned on behalf of cartwright .
stevenson died in napanee , ontario in 1884 .
