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James McLeod

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ6139475 ↗
Source-derived summary

James McLeod or James MacLeod may refer to:

James Macleod (1836–1894), Scottish-born Canadian politician and judge

James McLeod (Medal of Honor) (1836–40 – 1898), petty officer who received the Medal of Honor in 1862

James William McLeod (1871–1931), Ontario farmer and political figure

James McLeod (politician) (1882–1944), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council

James Walter McLeod (1887–1978), Scottish physician and bacteriologist.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1836, 1894, 1898, 1862—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where James, McLeod and Wikimedia can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6139475. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1836, 1894, 1898 and 1862.

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This entry incorporates text from “James McLeod” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.