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♂ Robert Schuyler Thompson
aliasRobert Thompson
Record
61089 · 14034

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 1 2
Birth 16 September 1844 → 179 years + 8 months ago
Lived 85 years + 8 months
First mandate 9 December 1886 → 137 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 42 years + 2 months
Death 28 May 1930 → 93 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 41 years + 10 months after 10 July 1888
Special notes
None
 
Robert Schuyler Thompson (1844–1930)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 1 7 0 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Ernest Wood  m 
 
 
Eligible: 892 Votes: 495 Participation: 55.49% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
6		 Manitoba
9 December 1886
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36500(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
42
LIB
 1/2 248 50.10% +1 Loser:
CONS
 247 49.90% J.A.F. Andrews

Service: 1 year 7 months 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 471 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Provincial
7		 Manitoba
11 July 1888
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36519(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
43
LIB
 2/3 138 29.30% -61 Winner:
CONS
 199 42.25% Ernest J. Wood

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Thompson, R.S.		 28 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Thompson, R.S.		 28 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Robert Schuyler Thompson (1844-1930)		 28 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Schuyler Thompson		 28 Apr 2024

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