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♂ James A. Proudfoot
aliasJames A. Proudfoot
Record
50892 · 10320

Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 0 1
Birth 8 January 1876 → 148 years + 3 months ago
Lived 73 years + 1 month
First mandate 1 October 1928 → 95 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 52 years + 8 months
Death 3 March 1949 → 75 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 15 years + 6 months after 21 August 1933
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 4 10 19 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Hubert M. Aucoin  m 
⊖ Malcolm McKay  m 
 		 ⊖ Moses E. McGarry  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 16,535 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
39		 Nova Scotia
1 October 1928
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 18109(F) — 15 May 2022 11:06 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
52
LIB
 1/4 4,422 53.48% +492 Loser:
LC
 3,930 47.53% Malcolm McKay

Service: 4 years 10 months 20 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,553 Votes: 10,537 Participation: 91.21% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
40		 Nova Scotia
22 August 1933
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18129(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
57		 Successor:
LIB
 5,626 53.64% Moses E. McGarry

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Proudfoot, James Adam (p. 179)		 16 Oct 2023

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