James Macdonnell (Canadian politician)

James MacKerras Macdonnell, PC CC MC (15 December 1884 – 27 July 1973) was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian.

He was born in Kingston, Ontario, the son of George W. Macdonnell and Mary Louise Philips, he was a Master at St. Andrew's College from 1904 to 1914 before becoming a trust company officer.

He was defeated in the 1949 federal election, but returned to parliament later that year when he won a by-election held in the Toronto riding of Greenwood.

[2] Following the 1957 federal election that returned the first Progressive Conservative government and the first Tory government since the Great Depression, the new Prime Minister of Canada, John Diefenbaker, named Macdonnell to Cabinet as a minister without portfolio.

[2] He resigned from Cabinet on 8 August 1959 for health reasons[3] and was defeated in the 1962 federal election by Andrew Brewin of the New Democratic Party.

Major-General A. C. MacDonell and staff officers, 1st Canadian Division, sometime in 1918. (Front row, from left to right): Lieutenant-Colonel J. L. R. Parsons, Brigadier-General H. C. Thacker , Major-General A. C. Macdonnell, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Sutherland Brown , Colonel H. P. Wright. (Back row, from left to right): Lieutenant-Colonel H. F. H. Hertzberg , Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel F. G. Scott , Lieutenant J. M. Macdonnell .