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♂ Earl James Rutledge
aliasEarl Rutledge
Record
54485 · 14495

United Church   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 5 0 5
Birth 22 August 1894 → 129 years + 8 months ago
Lived 80 years + 9 months
First mandate 28 June 1927 → 96 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 32 years + 10 months
Death 25 May 1975 → 48 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 26 years + 10 months after 13 July 1948
Special notes
None
 
Earl James Rutledge (1894–1975)
© 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 21 0 11 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Neil Cameron  m 
⊖ Norman Shuttleworth  m 
 		 ⊖ Henry Rungay  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Cecil St. John  m 
 
Eligible: 4,759 Votes: 3,354 Participation: 70.48% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37312(F) — 17 Oct 2023 21:38 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
32
CONS
 1/3 1,377 41.06% -28 Loser:
PROG
 1,405 41.89% Norman P. Shuttleworth

Service: 4 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,194 Votes: 4,942 Participation: 79.79% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37362(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
37
CONS
 1/3 2,336 47.27% +126 Loser:
LIBP
 2,210 44.72% Neil Cameron

Service: 4 years 1 month 10 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 7,090 Votes: 5,641 Participation: 79.56% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
20		 Manitoba
27 July 1936
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Minority
ID: 37412(F) — 15 Sep 2022 07:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
41
CONS
 1/3 2,462 45.19% +229 Loser:
LIBP
 2,233 40.99% Henry S. Rungay
After his election:
17 Nov 1940 46
CONS
 →
CONS
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 4 years 8 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,908 Votes: 4,968 Participation: 71.92% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
22 April 1941
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37458(F) — 16 Sep 2022 17:57 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
CONS
 1/2 2,963 60.77% +1,050 Loser:
LIBP
 1,913 39.23% Henry S. Rungay

Service: 4 years 5 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,673 Votes: 4,069 Participation: 60.98% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
22		 Manitoba
15 October 1945
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37509(F) — 17 Sep 2022 12:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
PC
 1/2 2,639 64.86% +1,209 Loser:
CCF
 1,430 35.14% Ralph G. Firth
After his election:
13 Jul 1948 53
PC
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 2 years 8 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,673 Votes: 4,832 Participation: 72.41% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
22		 Manitoba
2 November 1948
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37529(F) — 14 Sep 2022 20:43 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
54		 Successor:
LIBP
 3,470 71.81% Henry S. Rungay

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Rutledge, Earl James M.D.		 15 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Rutledge, Earl James (Dr.)		 15 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Earl James Rutledge (1894-1975)		 15 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Earl Rutledge		 15 May 2024

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