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♂ Orton Irwin Grain
aliasOrton Grain
Record
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Anglican     
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 1 4
Birth 9 August 1863 → 160 years + 9 months ago
Lived 66 years + 5 months
First mandate 7 December 1899 → 124 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 3 months
Death 2 February 1930 → 94 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 2 months after 10 November 1913
Special notes
None
 
Orton Irwin Grain (1863–1930)
© Photo 1894 The Canadian Album: Men of Canada or Success by Example via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
✗
Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve Selkirk, Manitoba (1896)
Mun./Co. Council ✗
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 10 3 14 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Albert R. Bredin  m 
 		 ⊖ Martin O'Donohoe  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 2,185 Votes: 1,383 Participation: 63.30% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
10		 Manitoba
7 December 1899
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36701(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
CONS
 1/2 830 60.01% +277 Loser:
LIB
 553 39.99% D.F. Reid

Service: 3 years 7 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,729 Votes: 1,431 Participation: 82.76% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
20 July 1903
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36857(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
39
CONS
 2/2 713 49.83% -5 Winner:
LIB
 718 50.17% Martin J. O'Donohoe
Eligible: 2,038 Votes: 1,543 Participation: 75.71% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36907(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
43
CONS
 1/2 792 51.33% +41 Loser:
LIB
 751 48.67% Martin J. O'Donohoe

Service: 3 years 4 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,888 Votes: 2,174 Participation: 75.28% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36956(F) — 19 Mar 2022 23:12 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
CONS
 1/2 1,131 52.02% +88 Loser:
LIB
 1,043 47.98% Albert R. Bredin
After his election:
10 Nov 1913 50
CONS
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 3 years 3 months 30 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,888 Votes: 2,220 Participation: 76.87% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
29 November 1913
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36987(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
CONS
 1,319 59.41% Walter H. Montague

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Grain, Orton Irvin M.D.		 11 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Grain, Orton Irvin (Dr.)		 11 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Orton Irwin Grain (1863-1930)		 11 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Orton Grain		 11 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 11 May 2024 20:14 (but data presented dynamically)

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