Stephen Stanley Hessian

HESSIAN, STEPHEN STANLEY, lawyer; b. 2 October 1891 in Georgetown, son of Thomas G. Hessian and Hannah Cummings; m. 15 January 1930 Blanche Wickham, and they had one son, Stephen; Roman Catholic; d. 5 November 1962 in Lagos, Nigeria. Hessian, a Liberal, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1919 for 5,h Kings. He was re-elected in the general election of 1931 for 3rd Kings and re-elected in the general election of 1935. Hessian was elected in the general election of 1955 for 5th Queens, and was re-elected in the general election of 1959. He served as Speaker from 1935 to 1939, when the Liberals held every seat in the House under Premier Thane A. Campbell*. He served on the Montague Town Council and was chairman of its finance committee. Hessian was educated at the Georgetown School and then at St. Dunstan's College in Charlottetown, where he received a Bachelor of Arts. In Montague he worked as a lawyer and Crown prosecutor. Hessian was a member of numerous community organizations. Hessian served as vicepresident of the Kings County Boy Scouts and secretary of the Kings County Health Organization. He was a member of the Board of Trade and the chairman of the Building Committee for the Montague High School. Hessian was a member of the Montague Curling Club and the Holy Name Society. Stephen Hessian died 5 November 1962, while representing the province at a Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference in Lagos. Blanche Hessian, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James F. Wickham of Montague, married Stephen Hessian in New York.