Thomas Horace McGuire

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Thomas Horace McGuire
Thomas Horace McGuire.jpg
McGuire between 1895 and 1907
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories
In office
February 18, 1902 January 3, 1903


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