Lewis Wigle

{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Lewis Wigle | image = | image_size = | riding1 = Essex South | parliament1 = Canadian | term_start1 = 1882 | term_end1 = 1887 | predecessor1 = ''New riding'' | successor1 = James Brien | office2 = Ontario MPP | term_start2 = 1875 | term_end2 = 1882 | predecessor2 = ''New riding'' | successor2 = William Balfour | constituency2 = Essex South | party = Conservative, 1875-1882 | other_party = Conservative, 1882-1887 | birth_date = {{birth date|1845|3|10}} | birth_place = {{nowrap|Gosfield Township, Canada West}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1934|7|30|1845|3|10}} | death_place = | occupation = Businessman | relations = | spouse = Bertha Smith | children = }} '''Lewis Wigle''' (March 10, 1845 – July 30, 1934) was an Ontario farmer, businessman and political figure. He represented Essex South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1875 to 1882 and in the House of Commons of Canada from 1882 to 1887 as a Conservative member.

He was born in Gosfield Township, Essex County, Canada West in 1845, the son of Solomon Wigle. He owned a general store at Leamington and served as reeve of Mersea from 1867 to 1875. Wigle married Rebecca Hairaine in 1868. He was president of the Leamington and St. Clair Railway and a tobacco buyer for the Empire Tobacco Company. After the death of his first wife in 1898, Wigle married Bertha Smith, the widow of a Doctor Wray. After 1887, he ran unsuccessfully four times for the Essex South seat in the House of Commons and in the 1919 provincial election as an independent Conservative. Wigle served as mayor of Leamington from 1902 to 1904.

His daughter Edith married Seger McKay, mayor of Kingsville.

==Electoral history== {{1875 Ontario general election/Essex South}} {{1875 Ontario provincial by-elections/Essex South}} {{1879 Ontario general election/Essex South}}

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==External links== * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=2172}} * {{Ontario MPP biography|id=lewis-wigle}} * {{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32951/274 |page=272 |title=The Canadian Parliamentary Companion and Annual Register |year=1877 |publisher=Citizen Printing and Publishing Company |editor-last=Mackintosh |editor-first=C.H. |editor-link=Charles Herbert Mackintosh |location=Ottawa}} * {{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.91595/807 |page=807 |title=A Cyclopæedia of Canadian Biography: Being Chiefly Men of the Time |year=1886 |publisher=Rose Publishing Co. |editor-last=Rose |editor-first=Geo. Maclean |location=Toronto}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070929083335/http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=3107 ''Commemorative biographical record of the county of Essex, Ontario ...'' (1905)]

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