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♂ William A. Fergusson
aliasWilliam A. Fergusson
Record
19600 · 10394

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 0 1
Birth 17 September 1850 → 173 years + 7 months ago
Lived Unknown
First mandate 20 April 1897 → 127 years + 7 days ago
↳ at age 46 years + 7 months
Death Unknown
 
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 4 5 10 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ John H. Sinclair  m 
 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,100 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
32		 Nova Scotia
20 April 1897
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17930(F) — 14 Sep 2021 21:20 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
46
LIB
 1/4 1,525 59.80% +460 Loser:
LC
 1,065 41.76% C. Ernest Gregory

Service: 4 years 5 months 11 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,185 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
33		 Nova Scotia
2 October 1901
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17952(F) — 6 Feb 2022 22:07 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
51		 Successor:
LIB
 1,498 71.57% William Whitman

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Fergusson, William Aikins (p. 69)		 17 Sep 2023

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