James Buckham Kennedy Explained

James Buckham Kennedy
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Constituency Mp:New Westminster
Parliament:Canadian
Predecessor:Aulay MacAulay Morrison
Successor:James Davis Taylor
Term Start:1904
Term End:1908
Office2:Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for New Westminster City
Predecessor2:John Cunningham Brown
Term Start2:1894
Term End2:1898
Birth Date:23 February 1844
Birth Place:Bytown, Canada West
Party:Liberal

James Buckham Kennedy (February 23, 1844  - September 25, 1930) was a Canadian lumberman and Liberal politician. Kennedy was the MLA for New Westminster from 1894 to 1898 and Member of Parliament for New Westminster for one term from 1904 to 1908. He also sat on New Westminster's city council.

Kennedy was married first in New Westminster B.C. on November 30, 1880, to Josephine Eugenia DeBeck who was born in 1859 in New Brunswick, and died in Los Gatos, California in 1883. She was the daughter of George and Eliza Ann DeBeck. They had one son Clarence George Kennedy born May 6, 1882, in New Westminster B.C., who died March 27, 1908, in Vernon, BC. All, except Josephine, are buried in the Fraser Cemetery New Westminster B.C.