{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{other people||John Small (disambiguation)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = John Small | honorific_suffix = | image = File:John Small, Canadian MP, 1831-1909.jpg | image_size = | constituency_MP = Toronto East | parliament = Canadian | predecessor = Samuel Platt | successor = Emerson Coatsworth | term_start = 1882 | term_end = 1891 | birth_date = {{birth date|1831|10|08}} | birth_place = York Township, Upper Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|1909|02|10|1831|10|08}} | death_place = | spouse = | party = Conservative | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = }} '''John Small''' (October 8, 1831 – February 10, 1909) was a Canadian politician.<ref name=CyclopediaCanadianBiography1886/>
Born in York Township, Upper Canada, Small was educated in his home district schools and at the Upper Canada College.<ref name=CyclopediaCanadianBiography1886/>
Both Small's grandfather, also named John Small, and his father Charles Coxwell Small had been the Chief Clerk of Upper Canada's Privy Council.
In 1855 he was elected to the Parliament of the Province of Canada for East Toronto Riding.<ref name=CyclopediaCanadianBiography1886/>
From 1855 to 1882, he was a taxing officer of the Court of the Queen's Bench. From 1878 to 1879, he was a member of the Toronto City Council.<ref name=CyclopediaCanadianBiography1886/> He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for Toronto East in the 1882 federal election. A Conservative, he was re-elected in 1887. He did not run in 1891 and was appointed collector of customs in Toronto.
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name=CyclopediaCanadianBiography1886> {{cite book | url = https://archive.org/details/acyclopediacana00rosegoog | quote = Charles Coxwell Small. | title = A Cyclopedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time. A Collection of Persons Distinguished in Professional and Political Life ; Leaders in the Commerce and Industry of Canada, and Successful Pioneers, Volume 1 | publisher = Rose Publishing Company | page = [https://archive.org/details/acyclopediacana00rosegoog/page/n452 439] | author = George Maclean Rose | year = 1886 | access-date = 2016-08-02 }} </ref>
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==External links== * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=4194|2=John Small}}
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