predecessor successor parliament birth_place constituency_mp death_date death_place party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
thomas sutherland parker george turner orton canadian arnage , aberdeenshire , scotland wellington centre 16 july 1895 guelph , ontario liberal 1 october 1817 1869 james ross -lrb- ontario politician -rrb-
 1874 james ross
james ross -lrb- ontario politician -rrb-

james ross -lrb- october 1 , 1817 -- july 16 , 1895 -rrb- was an ontario farmer and political figure .
he represented wellington centre in the canadian house of commons as a liberal member from 1869 to 1874 .
he was born in arnage , aberdeenshire , scotland in 1817 , the son of john leith ross , was educated at marischal college there and came to upper canada in 1836 .
he was reeve for nichol township from 1854 to 1859 and warden for wellington county from 1858 to 1859 .
he was elected to the legislative assembly of the province of canada in an 1859 by-election in the north riding of wellington and served until 1861 .
ross also served as crown lands agent .
he was first elected to the federal parliament in 1869 after the death of thomas sutherland parker .
he lived in cumnock and later guelph .
ross died in guelph at the age of 77 .
