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♂ James Thomas Gordon
aliasJames Gordon
Record
23691 · 14291

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 1 4
Birth 24 December 1858 → 165 years + 4 months ago
Lived 60 years + 11 months
First mandate 24 January 1901 → 123 years + 3 months ago
↳ at age 42 years + 1 month
Death 21 December 1919 → 104 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 9 years + 5 months after 10 July 1910
Special notes
None
 
James Thomas Gordon (1858–1919)
© 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 9 5 12 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊖ John D. Cameron  m 
⊖ Thomas Greenway  m 
 		 ⊖ Benjamin Chaffey  m 
 
Eligible: 1,212 Votes: 1,073 Participation: 88.53% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
10		 Manitoba
7 December 1899
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36711(F) — 7 Oct 2021 12:40 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
40
CONS
 2/3 428 39.89% -128 Winner:
LIB
 556 51.82% Thomas Greenway
Eligible: 3,336 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
10		 Manitoba
24 January 1901
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36740(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
42
CONS
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 2 years 5 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,251 Votes: 3,440 Participation: 80.92% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
20 July 1903
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36885(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
CONS
 1/2 1,807 52.53% +174 Loser:
LIB
 1,633 47.47% John D. Cameron

Service: 3 years 7 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,823 Votes: 4,110 Participation: 85.22% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36930(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
CONS
 1/2 2,122 51.63% +134 Loser:
LIB
 1,988 48.37% Benjamin E. Chaffey

Service: 3 years 4 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,011 Votes: 5,041 Participation: 83.86% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36979(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
51		 Successor:
CONS
 2,545 50.49% Lendrum McMeans

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Gordon, James Thomas		 11 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Gordon, James Thomas		 11 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
James Thomas Gordon (1858-1919)		 11 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
James Thomas Gordon		 11 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 11 May 2024 19:59 (but data presented dynamically)

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