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♂ William Whitman
aliasWilliam Whitman
Record
65066 · 10396

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 2 0 2
Birth c. 1848 → 176 years ago
Lived ± 76 years
First mandate 2 October 1901 → 122 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age ± 53 years
Death 28 August 1924 → 99 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 13 years + 2 months after 13 June 1911
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 9 7 29 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊖ James F. Ellis  m 
 		 ⊖ John H. Sinclair  m 
 
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±53
LIB
 2/4 1,498 71.57% +878 Loser:
LC
 620 29.62% John Keating

Service: 4 years 8 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,819 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
34		 Nova Scotia
30 June 1906
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17983(F) — 14 Sep 2021 21:09 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±58
LIB
 2/4 1,634 56.15% +309 Loser:
LC
 1,325 45.53% Samuel R. Giffin

Service: 4 years 11 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 6,897 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
35		 Nova Scotia
14 June 1911
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18012(F) — 14 Sep 2021 21:05 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±63		 Successor:
LIB
 1,794 52.02% James F. Ellis

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Whitman, William (p. 233)		 28 Aug 2023

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