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♂ James Andrews Miller
aliasJames Andrews Miller
Record
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☆   Anglican   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Manitoba 1 1 2
Total 1 2 3
Birth 29 July 1839 → 184 years + 9 months ago
Lived 47 years + 3 months
First mandate 21 September 1883 → 140 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 44 years + 1 month
Death 1 November 1886 → 137 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 1 year + 10 months after 10 December 1884
Special notes
None
 
James Andrews Miller (1839–1886)
© Photo Legislative Library, Manitoba (via the Manitoba Historical Society) — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
In 1885, after leaving provincial politics, Miller was named Manitoba's registrar general. He lived at the McKenzie Hotel in Winnipeg. On October 27, 1886, he slipped and fell on the hotel steps and died from his injuries five days later, aged 47.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 1 2 19 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Samuel J. Jackson  m 
 		 ⊖ James Norris  m 
 
Eligible: 3,861 Votes: 3,577 Participation: 92.64% Candidacies: 2
Federal
3		 Ontario
9 May 1877
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18921(F) — 10 Nov 2022 07:40 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
37
CONS
 2/2 1,746 48.81% -85 Winner:
LIB
 1,831 51.19% James Norris
Eligible: inc. Votes: 324 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
5		 Manitoba
23 January 1883
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 28383(F) — 16 Mar 2022 19:33 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
43
CONS
 2/2 74 22.84% -176 Winner:
LIB
 250 77.16% Samuel J. Jackson
Eligible: inc. Votes: 516 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
5		 Manitoba
21 September 1883
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 28400(F) — 16 Mar 2022 19:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
44
CONS
 1/2 385 74.61% +254 Loser:
IND
 131 25.39% James Gillespie
After his election:
10 Dec 1884 45
CONS
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 1 year 2 months 19 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 951 Votes: 470 Participation: 49.42% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
6		 Manitoba
9 December 1886
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36487(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
47		 Successor:
LIB
 243 51.70% Samuel J. Jackson

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Miller, James Andrews		 09 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Miller, James Andrews		 09 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
James Andrews Miller (1839-1886)		 09 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
James Andrews Miller		 09 Apr 2024

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