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♀ Frances Lilian Fish
aliasFrances Fish
Record
19890 · 15464

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Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
New Brunswick 0 1 1
Total 0 2 2
Birth 18 December 1888 → 135 years + 10 months ago
Lived 86 years + 10 months
First run 27 June 1935 → 89 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age 46 years + 6 months
Death 27 October 1975 → 49 years ago
 
Special notes
None
 
Frances Lilian Fish (1888–1975)
© Photo c.1910 UNB Archives & Special Collections — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Charles E. Fish (1854–1933) Father  
 
Well that's interesting!
Fish was the first woman to run for office in New Brunswick. In summer 1935, she ran for the Conservatives provincially and, in the fall, for the Reconstruction Party federally.
 

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
5 documented challengers
⊖ William Anderson  m 
⊖ Richard Gill  m 
⊖ Frederick Tweedie  m 
 		 ⊖ John Barry  m 
⊖ Hidulphe Savoie  m 
 
Northumberland
Elig. inc. Votes: 52,410 Partic.: inc. Can.: 8
Provincial
38		 New Brunswick
27 June 1935
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32378(F) — 7 Sep 2023 07:52 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
46
CONS
 6/8 4,686 35.76% -3,644 Winner:
LIB
 8,330 63.57% Hidulphe A. Savoie
Northumberland
Elig. 17,859 Votes: 13,612 Partic.: 76.22%
 !!! 
 Can.: 3
Federal
18		 New Brunswick
14 October 1935
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22637(F) — 7 Sep 2023 07:52 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
46
REC
 3/3 2,697 19.81% -4,965 Winner:
LIB
 7,662 56.29% John P. Barry

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Frances Lilian Fish		 30 Jul 2024
EN Wikipedia
Frances Fish		 30 Jul 2024

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