Samuel Walter Willet Pickup Explained

Samuel Walter Willet Pickup
Constituency Mp:Annapolis
Parliament:Canadian
Predecessor:Fletcher Bath Wade
Successor:Avard Longley Davidson
Term Start:1904
Term End:1911
Office2:Member of the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia
Term Start2:1913
Term End2:1928
Birth Date:1 March 1859
Birth Place:Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia
Party:Liberal

Samuel Walter Willet Pickup (March 1, 1859  - November 15, 1935) was a Canadian farmer, merchant, shipbuilder, shipowner, and politician.

Born in Granville Ferry, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, the son of Samuel Pickup, of English Loyalist descent, and Cyline G. Willett Pickup, his wife, of French Huguenot Loyalist descent, Pickup was educated in the Common Schools and at Mount Allison College (now Mount Allison University) in Sackville, New Brunswick. A merchant, farmer, shipbuilder, and shipowner, Pickup was a member of the Municipal Council for Annapolis County for eighteen years, during three years of which he was Warden of the County. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the electoral district of Annapolis in the 1904 federal election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1908 and was defeated in 1911. He was defeated again in the 1930 federal election. In 1913, he was appointed to the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia, which was abolished in 1928.

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