caption death_date death_place birth_place imagesize party office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name
robert mckim in 1873 20 january 1900 guelph , ontario sligo , ireland 180px liberal member north member of the legislative assembly of ontario for wellington of west the legislative assembly of ontario for wellington 1828 1867 1879 margaret shannon robert mckim.jpg robert mckim -lrb- politician -rrb-
 1872 1886 robert mckim
robert mckim -lrb- politician -rrb-

robert mckim -lrb- 1828 -- january 20 , 1900 -rrb- was an ontario , canada , farmer and political figure .
he represented wellington north in the legislative assembly of ontario as a liberal member from 1867 to 1872 and wellington west from 1879 to 1886 .
he was born and grew up in sligo , ireland .
in 1852 , he married margaret shannon .
he was a justice of the peace and also served as reeve for peel township .
mckim resigned his seat in the provincial legislature in 1874 to compete unsuccessfully in wellington centre for a seat in the federal parliament .
he was defeated in the 1875 provincial election and reelected in 1878 .
in 1884 , mckim turned over to the speaker of the house a large sum of money that he had been paid to vote against the government .
he died in guelph in 1900 .
