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♂ John Alexander MacDonald
aliasJohn MacDonald
Record
37598 · 10350

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 0 1
Birth 15 April 1861 → 163 years ago
Lived 77 years
First mandate 27 July 1920 → 103 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 59 years + 3 months
Death 8 May 1938 → 85 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 12 years + 10 months after 24 June 1925
Special notes
None
 

No photo available
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 27 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Albert E. Parsons  m 
 		 ⊖ James W. Reid  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 9,889 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Provincial
37		 Nova Scotia
27 July 1920
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18057(F) — 6 Oct 2022 08:15 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
59
FALA
 2/5 2,179 44.06% +96 Loser:
LC
 2,083 42.12% Albert E. Parsons

Service: 4 years 10 months 28 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 15,314 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
38		 Nova Scotia
25 June 1925
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 18080(F) — 6 Oct 2022 14:16 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
64		 Successor:
LC
 4,573 59.72% Edgar N. Rhodes

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
MacDonald, John Alexander [2] (p. 127)		 13 Apr 2024

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