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♂ Robert Hill Myers
aliasRobert Myers
Record
45591 · 14065

Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 1 4
Birth 30 March 1856 → 168 years + 1 month ago
Lived 65 years + 7 months
First mandate 23 July 1892 → 131 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 3 months
Death 16 November 1921 → 102 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 18 years + 10 months after 15 January 1903
Special notes
None
 
Robert Hill Myers (1856–1921)
© Photo 1902 Representative Men 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 10 5 20 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊖ James D. Gillies  m 
⊖ William James Roche  m 
 		 ⊖ Thomas Jackson  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 694 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Provincial
7		 Manitoba
11 July 1888
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36528(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
32
LIB
 2/3 227 32.71% -21 Winner:
CONS
 248 35.73% James D. Gillies
Eligible: 1,000 Votes: 875 Participation: 87.50% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
8		 Manitoba
23 July 1892
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36575(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
LIB
 1/2 469 53.60% +63 Loser:
CONS
 406 46.40% William J. Roche

Service: 3 years 5 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,207 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
9		 Manitoba
15 January 1896
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36621(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
39
LIB
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 3 years 10 months 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,468 Votes: 1,184 Participation: 80.65% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
10		 Manitoba
7 December 1899
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36708(F) — 17 Mar 2022 20:02 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
LIB
 1/2 694 58.61% +204 Loser:
CONS
 490 41.39% Thomas H. Jackson
After his election:
15 Jan 1903 46
LIB
 →
Vac.
 To accept an appointment (judge, senator, etc.)
Service: 3 years 1 month 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,565 Votes: 1,421 Participation: 90.80% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
20 July 1903
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36864(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
47		 Successor:
CONS
 751 52.85% William B. Waddell

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Myers, Robert Hill		 29 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Myers, Robert Hill		 29 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Robert Hill Myers (1856-1921)		 29 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Hill Myers		 29 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 29 Apr 2024 02:04 (but data presented dynamically)

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