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Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley

  • Born in Gagetown, New Brunswick

  • Certified Druggist in 1838

  • Period: to

    Member of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly

  • Reitired from his Drug Store career to pursue Politics

  • Period: to

    Premier of New Brunswick

  • Lost election to Albert Smith

  • Pro-Confederation supporters returned to power

  • Passed a resolution in the assembly supporting Confederation

  • Became a member of John A. Macdonald's first federal cabinet

  • Period: to

    Seventh Lieutenant Governer of New Brunswick

  • Retired from Politics

  • Died in Saint John