Mark Rudolph MacGuigan

MACGUIGAN, K.C., HONOURABLE MARK RUDOLPH, teacher, lawyer, and judge; b. 5 November 1894 in Hope River, son of Peter P. MacGuigan and Annie M. Hughes; m. 17 September 1923 Agnes Violet Trainor, and they had two children, Mark Rudolph and Roberta Ann; Roman Catholic; d. 4 April 1972 in St. Petersburg, Florida. MacGuigan, a Liberal, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1935 for 3rd Queens. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1939 and 1943. He was defeated in the general election of 1931. On 14 January 1936, MacGuigan was sworn in as Minister of Education and Health, and served until 11 May 1943, when he became Attorney-General. In 1944 MacGuigan resigned his seat to accept an appointment to the provincial Supreme Court. MacGuigan received his early education at St. Anne's School. He taught from 1910 to 1912, then attended St. Dunstan's College, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in June of 1914. MacGuigan studied law in the offices of MacKinnon and MacNeill and was called to the Bar on 5 November 1918. He opened his own practice, but later took in a partner, Charles St. Clair Trainor*, and both men practised under the name MacGuigan and Trainor. MacGuigan was appointed to the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island in1944 and he served on the bench until his retirement in 1967. Mark MacGuigan died 4 April 1972 in St. Petersburg, Florida, while vacationing with his wife. Agnes MacGuigan, the daughter of John J. Trainor and Katherine Kelly, was born 27 January 1895. Mark MacGuigan, Jr., the son of Mark MacGuigan, Sr., served as a Member of the House of Commons, a federal cabinet minister, and on the Supreme Court of Canada.