Friday, February 15, 2019

Alexander.M.Lincoln

      Lincoln .M. Alexander
Lincoln, M, Alexander was born in 1922, in Toronto. He also fought in the world war and he was serving the royal air force for 3 years and he was the lieutenant governor and at the end of the war he went to get an education in two different schools in the first one he graduated in Arts, and the second was in Toronto Osgoode Hall school of law which is where he passed the bar examination in 1965.



Mr. Alexander was appointed to become a Queen’s Counsel and he became a partner in the  Hamilton law firm from 1963 to 1979. He was also the first black person to be a member for the parliament in 1968 and he served in the of Commons for 12 years and he was also serving the federal Minister of Labour in 1979 1980. In 1985 Lincoln .M. Alexander became Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor and he was also the first member in the visible minority to serve the Queen in Canada. During his terms in his office, which ended in 1991, and youth and his educations were hallmarks of his mandate. Let's skip ahead to when he became a Companion of the order of Canada and he was also an in the order of Ontario, in 1992, in 2006, and he was named the greatest Hamilton of all time and 6 years later he died on October 19,2012 at age 90 :(. The end.



2 comments:

  1. We're learning about the Lieutenant Governor in social right now! Good information here!

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