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♂ Gordon Howard Fitzgerald
aliasGordon Fitzgerald
Record
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☆   Anglican   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 3 1 4
Birth 19 January 1927 → 97 years + 3 months ago
Lived 87 years + 3 months
First mandate 7 June 1960 → 63 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 33 years + 4 months
Death 1 May 2014 → 10 years ago
Exit → Death 43 years + 6 months after 12 October 1970
Special notes
None
 
Gordon Howard Fitzgerald (1927–2014)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Nova Scotia — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
A Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative MLA for 10 years, Fitzgerald was 43 years old when he tried but failed to get a fourth mandate. He lived 43 years after leaving the legislature.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 10 4 2 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NS 49
PC
 1 Speaker 42–43 13 Feb 1969 — 12 Oct 1970 1 7 29

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Ronald M. Fielding  m 
 		 ⊖ George S. Riley  m 
 
Eligible: 11,354 Votes: 9,076 Participation: 79.94% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
47		 Nova Scotia
7 June 1960
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 18367(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
33
PC
 1/3 4,209 46.55% +27 Loser:
LIB
 4,182 46.26% Ronald M. Fielding

Service: 3 years 4 months (Gov't)
Eligible: 13,391 Votes: 9,993 Participation: 74.62% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
48		 Nova Scotia
8 October 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 18409(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
36
PC
 1/3 5,559 56.07% +1,532 Loser:
LIB
 4,027 40.62% George D. Burris

Service: 3 years 7 months 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 14,137 Votes: 10,689 Participation: 75.61% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
49		 Nova Scotia
30 May 1967
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 14256(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
40
PC
 1/2 5,463 51.51% +320 Loser:
LIB
 5,143 48.49% John F. Cruickshank

Service: 3 years 4 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 17,477 Votes: 12,885 Participation: 73.73% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
50		 Nova Scotia
13 October 1970
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 8612(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
43
PC
 2/3 5,427 42.69% -1,026 Winner:
LIB
 6,453 50.76% George S. Riley

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Fitzgerald, Gordon Howard (p. 71)		 09 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Gordon H. Fitzgerald		 09 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  9 Apr 2024 22:41 (but data presented dynamically)

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