He won the West Toronto Conservative nomination for the 1887 federal election over three other candidates, including incumbent parliamentarian James Beaty, Jr..
James Beaty, Jr. (1831–1899), Mayor of Toronto from 1879 to 1880 and a Canadian Member of Parliament from 1880 to 1887
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James A. Beaty, Jr. (born 1949), U.S. District Judge and former federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit