{{Short description|Canadian politician (1842–1912)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1842|04|11}} | birth_place = Chegoggin, Nova Scotia, Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|1912|08|09|1842|04|11}} | death_place = Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada | office = MLA for Yarmouth County | term_start = 1882 | term_end = 1886 | predecessor = Joseph Robbins Kinney | successor = William Law | party = Conservative | occupation = Lawyer | spouse = Jane Aldean Baxter | children = 3 }}
'''Thomas Edgar Corning''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|KC}} (April 11, 1842 – August 9, 1912) was a lawyer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada. He represented Yarmouth County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly as a Conservative member from 1882 to 1886.
He was born in Chegoggin, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, the son of Nelson Corning and Sarah Murphy, and was educated at Acadia College. He was called to the bar in 1869. In 1880, Corning married Jane Alden Baxter. He was named a Queen's Counsel in 1890. He served as treasurer and solicitor for Yarmouth from 1874 to 1890. From 1890 until 1912, he was recorder for the town of Yarmouth. Corning ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the House of Commons in 1900, 1902 and 1904. He died in Yarmouth at the age of 70. {{1900 Canadian federal election/Yarmouth}} {{CanElec1-by|3 December 1902|On Mr. Flint being appointed Clerk of the House of Commons, 11 November 1902}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Bowman Brown Law|2,076}} {{CANelec|CA|Conservative (historical)|Thomas Edgar Corning|1,208}} {{end}} {{1904 Canadian federal election/Yarmouth}}
==References== * {{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32957/275 |page=265 |title=The Canadian Parliamentary Companion |year=1883 |publisher=J. Durie & Son |editor-last=Gemmill |editor-first=J.A. |location=Ottawa}} * ''A Directory of the Members of the Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758-1958'', Public Archives of Nova Scotia (1958)
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