James Edwin Robertson

Who was James Edwin Robertson?

James Edwin Robertson was a Canadian physician and politician.

Born in New Perth, Prince Edward Island, the son of Peter Robertson and Annie McFarlane, Robertson was educated at McGill University where he graduated with honors in 1865, after which he located in Montague, Prince Edward Island where he has worked up a large practice.

In 1870, he was acclaimed to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island for 4th Kings. He was re-elected in 1876 but was defeated in 1879. He was re-elected in 1882. He was a Minister Without Portfolio in the cabinet of Robert Poore Haythorne and Louis Henry Davies.

He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons for King's County in the 1882 election. In 1883, he was declared not duly elected on the grounds that he was a member of the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly at the time of the election. The seat was then adjudicated to Augustine Macdonald. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1887 and was defeated in 1891. In 1902, he was summoned to the Canadian Senate on the advice of Wilfrid Laurier representing the senatorial division of Prince Edward Island, Prince Edward Island. He served until April 1915.