death_date death_place children birth_place office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
04 march 1927 vancouver , british columbia james o. argue ireland member of the legislative assembly of manitoba for avondale 02 june 1848 1899 james argue.jpg james argue
 1914 james henthorne argue
james argue

james henthorne argue -lrb- 2 june 1848 -- 4 march 1927 -rrb- was a politician in manitoba , canada .
he served in the legislative assembly of manitoba from 1899 to 1914 , as a member of the conservative party .
argue was born in ireland , and received a grammar school education .
he worked as a farmer after moving in manitoba , and served for fifteen years as a local reeve and councillor .
in religion , he was a member of the church of england .
he was first elected to the manitoba legislature in the 1899 provincial election , defeating liberal incumbent thomas dickey by seventy-seven votes in the avondale constituency .
the conservatives won this election , and argue served in the legislature as a government backbencher .
he was re-elected in the campaigns of 1903 , 1907 and 1910 , and did not seek re-election in 1914 .
he later moved to vancouver , where he died in 1927 .
his son , james o. argue , was a progressive conservative member of the legislature from 1945 to 1955 .
