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♂ Joseph Patrick Foley
aliasJoseph Foley
Record
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Irish-Canadian    Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 1 2
Birth 2 March 1878 → 146 years + 2 months ago
Lived 50 years + 2 months
First mandate 10 July 1914 → 109 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 4 months
Death 11 May 1928 → 96 years ago
Exit → Death 12 years + 9 months after 5 August 1915
Special notes
None
 
Joseph Patrick Foley (1878–1928)
© 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 0 25 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Arthur Beech  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Robert Newton Lowery  m 
 
Eligible: 9,400 Votes: 7,872 Participation: 83.74% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 37026(F) — 12 May 2024 13:58 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
CONS
 1/3 3,135 39.82% +319 Loser:
LIB
 2,816 35.77% James Willoughby

Service: 1 year 26 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,093 Votes: 6,181 Participation: 76.37% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37083(F) — 12 May 2024 13:58 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
37
CONS
 3/3 1,490 24.11% -953 Winner:
LIB
 2,443 39.52% Robert N. Lowery

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Foley, Joseph Patrick		 12 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Foley, Joseph Patrick		 12 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Joseph Patrick Foley (1878-1928)		 12 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Joseph P. Foley		 12 May 2024

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