David Wardrope Wallace was an Ontario

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 physician and political figure. He represented Russell

Russell (Ontario electoral district)

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 in the Canadian House of Commons

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 as a Liberal

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 member from 1903 to 1904.

He was born in North Gower

North Gower, Ontario

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, Canada West in 1850, the son of James Wallace and Agnes Adams, and studied at Queen's University

Queen's University

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, receiving his M.D.

Doctor of Medicine

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 there. Wallace married Esther Eastman in 1883. He was elected to the House of Commons in an 1903 by-election held after William C. Edwards was named to the Senate. Wallace died in Ottawa at the age of 73.