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♂ Walter Vincent Powers
aliasWalter Vincent Powers
Record
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☆   Irish-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 25%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 1 3 4
Birth 24 July 1895 → 128 years + 9 months ago
Lived 59 years + 3 months
First mandate 22 September 1952 → 71 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 57 years + 1 month
Death 8 November 1954 → 69 years + 5 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
Walter Vincent Powers (1895–1954)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, New Brunswick — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Failing to win one of the two seats for Victoria in the 1939, 1944 and 1948 New Brunswick general elections, the (Progressive)-Conservative Powers finally got one in 1952. Named Speaker of the Assembly in 1954 after the death of Elmer Kennedy, he, too, died in office — two years after being elected. He was 59.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 2 1 16 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 42
PC
 1 Speaker 58–59 18 Feb 1954 — 08 Nov 1954 0 8 21

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
6 documented challengers
⊖ Vernon R. Briggs  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Theodore E. Duffie  m 
⊖ John W. Niles  m 
 		 ⊖ J. Stewart Brooks  m 
⊖ Michael F. McCluskey  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Frederick W. Pirie  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 11,758 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
39		 New Brunswick
20 November 1939
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32401(F) — 12 Feb 2022 13:48 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
44
CONS
 4/4 2,241 38.12% -1,324 Winner:
LIB
 3,565 60.64% John W. Niles
Eligible: inc. Votes: 12,460 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
40		 New Brunswick
28 August 1944
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32421(F) — 12 Feb 2022 14:01 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
49
PC
 4/6 2,353 37.77% -819 Winner:
LIB
 3,172 50.91% Vernon R. Briggs
Eligible: inc. Votes: 13,460 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Provincial
41		 New Brunswick
28 June 1948
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32441(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
52
PC
 4/5 2,794 41.52% -808 Winner:
LIB
 3,602 53.52% Vernon R. Briggs
Eligible: inc. Votes: 13,638 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Provincial
42		 New Brunswick
22 September 1952
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32459(F) — 12 Feb 2022 14:12 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
57
PC
 1/5 3,810 55.87% +935 Loser:
LIB
 2,875 42.16% Theodore E. Duffie
After his election:
8 Nov 1954 59
PC
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 2 years 1 month 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 14,644 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
43		 New Brunswick
18 June 1956
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32476(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
59		 Successor:
PC
 4,186 57.17% Leon B. Rideout

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Speakers of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
Hon. Walter Vincent Powers		 16 Mar 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Présidents de l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick
L’hon. Walter Vincent Powers		 16 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Walter Powers (politician)		 16 Mar 2024

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