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♂ Hugh Amos Robson
aliasHugh Robson
Record
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Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 0 1
Birth 9 September 1871 → 152 years + 8 months ago
Lived 73 years + 10 months
First mandate 28 June 1927 → 96 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 55 years + 9 months
Death 9 July 1945 → 78 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 15 years + 6 months after 3 January 1930
Special notes
None
 
Hugh Amos Robson (1871–1945)
© 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 2 6 6 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 17–18
LIB
 1 Party leader 55–58 20 Mar 1927 — 02 Jan 1930 2 9 13

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
22 documented challengers
⊖ Royal Burritt  m 
⊖ John Downes  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m 
⊖ Robert Alexander Gillespie  m 
⊖ Theodore Hunt  m 
⊖ Walter Lindal  m 
⊖ William Major  m 
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m 
⊖ Edith Rogers  f 
⊖ Max Steinkopf  m 
 		 ⊖ Duncan Cameron  m 
⊖ Robert Durward  m 
⊖ Seymour Farmer  m 
⊖ John Haig  m 
⊖ William Ivens  m 
⊖ John MacLean  m 
⊖ Ralph Maybank  m 
⊖ Jack Moore  m 
⊖ John Queen  m 
⊖ Frank Sedziak  m 
⊖ William Tobias  m 
 
Eligible: 67,124 Votes: 50,706 Participation: 62.30% Candidacies: 25
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37331(F) — 3 Sep 2023 09:46 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
55
LIB
 2/25 4,862 9.59% +2,815 Loser:
MOD
 2,047 4.04% John K. Downes
After his election:
3 Jan 1930 58
LIB
 →
Vac.
 To accept an appointment (judge, senator, etc.)
Service: 2 years 6 months 6 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 119,754 Votes: 76,991 Participation: 64.29% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37381(F) — 15 May 2024 14:16 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
60		 Successor:
LIBP
 2,945 3.83% H. Ralph Maybank

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Robson, Hugh Amos K.C.		 15 May 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Robson, Hugh Amos c.r.		 15 May 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Hugh Amos Robson (1871-1945)		 15 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Hugh Robson (politician)		 15 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 15 May 2024 08:09 (but data presented dynamically)

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