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♂ Reginald T. Caldwell
aliasReginald T. Caldwell
Record
8802 · 10459

☆   United Church   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 2 0 2
Birth 11 June 1885 → 138 years + 10 months ago
Lived 53 years + 8 months
First mandate 25 June 1925 → 98 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 40 years
Death 2 March 1939 → 85 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 5 years + 6 months after 21 August 1933
Special notes
None
 

No photo available
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
A Nova Scotia Conservative MLA for Kings County from 1925 to 1933, Caldwell died in the Queen Hotel fire in Halifax on March 2, 1939. He was 53 years old.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 8 1 25 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊖ John A. McDonald  m 
 		 ⊖ George C. Nowlan  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 20,481 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
38		 Nova Scotia
25 June 1925
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 18082(F) — 14 Sep 2021 20:52 ET
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 → New to this legislature
Age
40
LC
 2/4 5,455 53.27% +492 Loser:
LIB
 4,963 48.46% John A. McDonald

Service: 3 years 3 months 5 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 20,605 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
39		 Nova Scotia
1 October 1928
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 18110(F) — 14 Sep 2021 20:48 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
LC
 1/4 5,540 53.77% +537 Loser:
LIB
 5,003 48.56% James F. Durno

Service: 4 years 10 months 20 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 14,975 Votes: 12,867 Participation: 85.92% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
40		 Nova Scotia
22 August 1933
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18130(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:13 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
48		 Successor:
LIB
 6,700 52.35% John A. McDonald

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax and Its People / 1749-1999: The Queen Hotel Fire, Hollis Street, Halifax, 2 March 1939		 17 Mar 2024
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Caldwell, Reginald Tucker (p. 26)		 17 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Reginald Tucker Caldwell		 17 Mar 2024

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