... branches, the Whigs are largely in the majority. There are two Know-nothings in the Senate, and thirty-eight elected to the Assembly. A Know-nothing had been elected as coroner in Ontario county by overwhelming majority over the Whig and Democratic ...

... junior practice. He became Solicitor-General in 1837, and succeeded Mr Murray as Lord Advocate in 1839. On the return of the Whigs to office in 1846, he of course again became Lord Advocate. A man of great strength and working resources, he was one of those ...