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{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Thomas J. Higgins
|image =
|office = 62nd [[List of mayors of Saint John, New Brunswick|Mayor of Saint John]]
|term_start = February 14, 1994
|term_end = 1995
|predecessor = [[Elsie Wayne]]
|successor2 = [[Shirley McAlary]]
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|birth_date = {{birth date|1884|10|10}}
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'''Thomas J. Higgins''' (1931<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas John Edward Higgins |url=https://www.ancestryinstitution.com/discoveryui-content/view/6586244:62640 |website=www.ancestryinstitution.com |publisher=Library and Archives Canada |access-date=28 April 2024 |language=en}}</ref> – August 24, 1995) was a Canadian educator and municipal politician who served as the 62nd [[List of mayors of Saint John, New Brunswick|mayor]] of [[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]], [[New Brunswick]] from 1994 to 1995. He was Saint John's first [[Catholic]] mayor.<ref name="TJ-1">{{cite news |last1=Goff |first1=Shawn |title=Higgins wants to improve city's fortunes |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/17...23PQ/6?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=23 April 2016 |language=en}}</ref>
==Life and career==
Higgins attended the [[St. Francis Xavier University]] in [[Antigonish, Nova Scotia|Antigonish]], [[Nova Scotia]],<ref name="TJ-3">{{cite news |title=Honour for Two Thomases; This year's winners of the Thomas J. Higgins awardboth knew the former mayor and remember him fondly |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...D4PQ/3?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=26 October 2000}}</ref> where he met his future wife Dorothy Ann MacDonald.<ref name="TJ-4">{{cite news |title=Higgins was dedicated to her children, grandkids |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/13...5PQ/11?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=29 March 2013}}</ref>
Higgins taught at [[St. Malachy's High School]],<ref name="TJ-2">{{cite news |last1=Chilibeck |first1=John |title=Premier keeps pledge to youth |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...23PQ/7?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=4 September 1998}}</ref> serving as a coach,<ref>{{cite news |title=Community cathedrals; The humble local hockey rink has unified Canadians for more than a century. In New Brunswick, one architectural firm is making its name designing plush, efficient arenas for the next hundred years, without neglecting the endearing nuances that made the old barns so charming. They are the new temples, writes Marty Klinkenberg |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...CPQ/20?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=20 December 2008}}</ref> as well as a principal until his retirement.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chilibeck |first1=John |title=Ward 2 voters have intriguing choice in byelection race |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...CPQ/14?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=11 July 2008}}</ref> During the 1970s, Higgins served as Deputy Mayor of Saint John,<ref>{{cite web |title=Minute Book 75 |url=https://records.saintjohn.ca/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=34604 |website=records.saintjohn.ca |publisher=Saint John Common Council |access-date=28 April 2024 |date=23 January 1978}}</ref> and he was sworn in as [[List of mayors of Saint John, New Brunswick|Mayor of Saint John]] on February 14, 1994.<ref>{{cite web |title=Regular Council Meeting |url=https://records.saintjohn.ca/WebLin...b180-b04c2549845f&dbid=0&repo=CityofSaintJohn |website=records.saintjohn.ca |publisher=Saint John Council |access-date=27 April 2024 |date=14 January 1994}}</ref> During his time as mayor, Higgins attended the Bangor-Saint John Sister City Exchange program, a cooperation meeting between Saint John city officials and American city officials of [[Bangor, Maine|Bangor]], [[Maine]] to discuss strengthening the relationship between Maine and New Brunswick.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Young |first1=Susan |title=Saint John and Bangor seek closer ties |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bangor-daily-news/146188123/ |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[The Bangor Daily News]] |date=6 May 1994 |page=45 |language=en}}</ref> On May 8, 1995,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Canada |first1=Veterans Affairs |title=Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 53 Recognition Memorial - National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials (NICMM) - Memorials - Remembrance - Veterans Affairs Canada |url=https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remem...nal-inventory-canadian-memorials/details/1965 |website=www.veterans.gc.ca |access-date=27 April 2024 |date=20 February 2019}}</ref> Higgins had a memorial stone placed at Jervis Bay-Ross Memorial Park in recognition for the [[Royal Canadian Legion]] Branch #53.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goss |first1=David |title=Lest we Forget |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...CPQ/12?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=7 November 1998}}</ref> He additionally honoured two individuals with the [[Freedom of the City]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Weisz |first1=Marni |title=Artist receives rare city honour |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...CPQ/13?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=3 May 1999}}</ref>
During the summer of 1995, Higgins resigned from his position due to declining in health. He was succeeded by [[Shirley McAlary]], his interim mayor.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Jennifer |title=Store owner who ran for MP is now eyeing mayor's job |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...CPQ/40?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=19 February 1998}}</ref>
==Personal life and death==
On August 24, 1995,<ref>{{cite web |title=Regular Council Meeting |url=https://records.saintjohn.ca/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=34901 |website=records.saintjohn.ca |publisher=Saint John Common Council |access-date=28 April 2024 |date=28 August 1995}}</ref> Higgins died from cancer in 1995.<ref name="TJ-2"/> His wife, Dorothy Ann Higgins, died in March 2013 at the age of 79.<ref name="TJ-4"/> The Thomas J. Higgins Award was created in his honour, with recipients including [[Moosehead Breweries]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hawkins |first1=Mike |title=Exceptional Spirits |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...5PQ/13?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=10 September 1999}}</ref> His daughter, Patty Higgins, was another municipal politician who was elected to the [[Saint John City Council]] in 2008,<ref>{{cite news |title='Time to get down to business and giddy-up,' says newly elected councillor |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-...ddy-up-says-newly-elected-councillor-1.709121 |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[CBC News]] |date=15 July 2008}}</ref> and ran for mayor of Saint John in 2016.<ref name="TJ-1"/>
==References==
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before= [[Elsie Wayne]] |
title= [[List of mayors of Saint John, New Brunswick|Mayor of Saint John]] |
years= 1994–1995 |
after= [[Shirley McAlary]]
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[[Category:Mayors of Saint John, New Brunswick]]
[[Category:St. Francis Xavier University alumni]]
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{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Thomas J. Higgins
|image =
|office = 62nd [[List of mayors of Saint John, New Brunswick|Mayor of Saint John]]
|term_start = February 14, 1994
|term_end = 1995
|predecessor = [[Elsie Wayne]]
|successor2 = [[Shirley McAlary]]
|birth_name =
|birth_date = {{birth date|1884|10|10}}
|birth_place =
|death_date = {{death date and age|1995|8|24|1931}}
|death_place =
|party =
|spouse = Dorothy Ann MacDonald
|children =
|alma_mater =
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'''Thomas J. Higgins''' (1931<ref>{{cite web |title=Thomas John Edward Higgins |url=https://www.ancestryinstitution.com/discoveryui-content/view/6586244:62640 |website=www.ancestryinstitution.com |publisher=Library and Archives Canada |access-date=28 April 2024 |language=en}}</ref> – August 24, 1995) was a Canadian educator and municipal politician who served as the 62nd [[List of mayors of Saint John, New Brunswick|mayor]] of [[Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]], [[New Brunswick]] from 1994 to 1995. He was Saint John's first [[Catholic]] mayor.<ref name="TJ-1">{{cite news |last1=Goff |first1=Shawn |title=Higgins wants to improve city's fortunes |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/17...23PQ/6?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=23 April 2016 |language=en}}</ref>
==Life and career==
Higgins attended the [[St. Francis Xavier University]] in [[Antigonish, Nova Scotia|Antigonish]], [[Nova Scotia]],<ref name="TJ-3">{{cite news |title=Honour for Two Thomases; This year's winners of the Thomas J. Higgins awardboth knew the former mayor and remember him fondly |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...D4PQ/3?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=26 October 2000}}</ref> where he met his future wife Dorothy Ann MacDonald.<ref name="TJ-4">{{cite news |title=Higgins was dedicated to her children, grandkids |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/13...5PQ/11?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=29 March 2013}}</ref>
Higgins taught at [[St. Malachy's High School]],<ref name="TJ-2">{{cite news |last1=Chilibeck |first1=John |title=Premier keeps pledge to youth |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...23PQ/7?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=4 September 1998}}</ref> serving as a coach,<ref>{{cite news |title=Community cathedrals; The humble local hockey rink has unified Canadians for more than a century. In New Brunswick, one architectural firm is making its name designing plush, efficient arenas for the next hundred years, without neglecting the endearing nuances that made the old barns so charming. They are the new temples, writes Marty Klinkenberg |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...CPQ/20?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=20 December 2008}}</ref> as well as a principal until his retirement.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Chilibeck |first1=John |title=Ward 2 voters have intriguing choice in byelection race |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...CPQ/14?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=11 July 2008}}</ref> During the 1970s, Higgins served as Deputy Mayor of Saint John,<ref>{{cite web |title=Minute Book 75 |url=https://records.saintjohn.ca/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=34604 |website=records.saintjohn.ca |publisher=Saint John Common Council |access-date=28 April 2024 |date=23 January 1978}}</ref> and he was sworn in as [[List of mayors of Saint John, New Brunswick|Mayor of Saint John]] on February 14, 1994.<ref>{{cite web |title=Regular Council Meeting |url=https://records.saintjohn.ca/WebLin...b180-b04c2549845f&dbid=0&repo=CityofSaintJohn |website=records.saintjohn.ca |publisher=Saint John Council |access-date=27 April 2024 |date=14 January 1994}}</ref> During his time as mayor, Higgins attended the Bangor-Saint John Sister City Exchange program, a cooperation meeting between Saint John city officials and American city officials of [[Bangor, Maine|Bangor]], [[Maine]] to discuss strengthening the relationship between Maine and New Brunswick.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Young |first1=Susan |title=Saint John and Bangor seek closer ties |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bangor-daily-news/146188123/ |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[The Bangor Daily News]] |date=6 May 1994 |page=45 |language=en}}</ref> On May 8, 1995,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Canada |first1=Veterans Affairs |title=Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 53 Recognition Memorial - National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials (NICMM) - Memorials - Remembrance - Veterans Affairs Canada |url=https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remem...nal-inventory-canadian-memorials/details/1965 |website=www.veterans.gc.ca |access-date=27 April 2024 |date=20 February 2019}}</ref> Higgins had a memorial stone placed at Jervis Bay-Ross Memorial Park in recognition for the [[Royal Canadian Legion]] Branch #53.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goss |first1=David |title=Lest we Forget |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...CPQ/12?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=7 November 1998}}</ref> He additionally honoured two individuals with the [[Freedom of the City]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Weisz |first1=Marni |title=Artist receives rare city honour |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...CPQ/13?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=3 May 1999}}</ref>
During the summer of 1995, Higgins resigned from his position due to declining in health. He was succeeded by [[Shirley McAlary]], his interim mayor.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Jennifer |title=Store owner who ran for MP is now eyeing mayor's job |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...CPQ/40?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=19 February 1998}}</ref>
==Personal life and death==
On August 24, 1995,<ref>{{cite web |title=Regular Council Meeting |url=https://records.saintjohn.ca/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=34901 |website=records.saintjohn.ca |publisher=Saint John Common Council |access-date=28 April 2024 |date=28 August 1995}}</ref> Higgins died from cancer in 1995.<ref name="TJ-2"/> His wife, Dorothy Ann Higgins, died in March 2013 at the age of 79.<ref name="TJ-4"/> The Thomas J. Higgins Award was created in his honour, with recipients including [[Moosehead Breweries]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hawkins |first1=Mike |title=Exceptional Spirits |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/42...5PQ/13?accountid=196403&sourcetype=Newspapers |access-date=27 April 2024 |work=[[Telegraph-Journal]] |date=10 September 1999}}</ref> His daughter, Patty Higgins, was another municipal politician who was elected to the [[Saint John City Council]] in 2008,<ref>{{cite news |title='Time to get down to business and giddy-up,' says newly elected councillor |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-...ddy-up-says-newly-elected-councillor-1.709121 |access-date=28 April 2024 |work=[[CBC News]] |date=15 July 2008}}</ref> and ran for mayor of Saint John in 2016.<ref name="TJ-1"/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{s-start}}
{{s-off}}
{{succession box |
before= [[Elsie Wayne]] |
title= [[List of mayors of Saint John, New Brunswick|Mayor of Saint John]] |
years= 1994–1995 |
after= [[Shirley McAlary]]
}}
{{s-end}}
[[Category:1931 births]]
[[Category:1995 deaths]]
[[Category:Mayors of Saint John, New Brunswick]]
[[Category:St. Francis Xavier University alumni]]
[[Category:Canadian schoolteachers]]
Okumaya devam et...