Henry Nathan, Jr.
Henry Nathan, Jr. was the first Jewish Canadian to be elected to the House of Commons. Born in London, England, Nathan was one of two MPs elected to represent the British Columbia riding of Victoria in the Canadian general election of 1872. They had won by acclamation special byelections held the year before to fill the newly created House of Commons seats upon British Columbias admission to Confederation . The other representative for Victoria was B.C.s Father of Confederation, Amor De Cosmos who was simultaneously Premier of that province until 1874. The thirdplace alsoran was Robert Beaven, who was to become the sixth Premier of British Columbia ten years later.
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