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♂ Edward Brown
aliasEdward Brown
Record
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United Church     
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 40%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 2 3 5
Birth 23 May 1865 → 158 years + 11 months ago
Lived 81 years + 8 months
First mandate 25 August 1915 → 108 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 50 years + 3 months
Death 8 February 1947 → 77 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 24 years + 6 months after 17 July 1922
Special notes
In 1910, was one of Winnipeg's 19 millionaires.
 
Edward Brown (1865–1947)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba 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 Portage la Prairie, Manitoba
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 6 10 21 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 11
LIB
 1 Party leader 40–42 28 Mar 1906 — 30 Jun 1907 1 3 2

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Hugh Armstrong  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Lendrum McMeans  m 
 
Eligible: 1,549 Votes: 1,453 Participation: 93.80% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
20 July 1903
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36870(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
38
LIB
 2/2 711 48.93% -31 Winner:
CONS
 742 51.07% Hugh Armstrong
Eligible: 1,818 Votes: 1,513 Participation: 83.22% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36918(F) — 19 Mar 2022 17:58 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
41
LIB
 2/2 645 42.63% -223 Winner:
CONS
 868 57.37% Hugh Armstrong
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
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
45
LIB
 2/2 2,496 49.51% -49 Winner:
CONS
 2,545 50.49% Lendrum McMeans
Eligible: 736 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
25 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37078(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
50
LIB
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 4 years 10 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,006 Votes: 686 Participation: 68.19% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
16		 Manitoba
29 June 1920
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 37182(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
55
LIB
 1/2 560 81.63% +434 Loser:
DLP
 126 18.37% Allan Norgrove

Service: 2 years 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,355 Votes: 699 Participation: 51.59% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
17		 Manitoba
5 October 1922
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37230(F) — 7 Oct 2021 13:59 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
57		 Successor:
PROG
 472 67.53% John Bracken

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Brown, Edward		 12 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Brown, Edward		 12 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Edward Brown (1865-1947)		 12 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Edward Brown (Manitoba politician)		 12 May 2024

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