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♂ Edwin W. Melville
aliasEdwin W. Melville
Record
42859 · 10630

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 4 0 4
Birth 11 October 1870 → 153 years + 6 months ago
Lived 71 years + 6 months
First mandate 10 August 1925 → 98 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 54 years + 9 months
Death 22 April 1942 → 82 years ago
Died in office Yes
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
New Brunswick 16 8 8 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
8 documented challengers
⊖ Samuel J. Burlock  m 
⊖ J.E. Jack Patterson  m 
⊖ Benjamin F. Smith  m 
⊖ Frederick C. Squires  m  (4 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Wendell P. Jones  m 
⊖ Gladstone W. Perry  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Frederick W. Smith  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Rennie K. Tracey  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 23,374 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
36		 New Brunswick
10 August 1925
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32321(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
54
CONS
 3/6 5,130 65.85% +2,430 Loser:
UF
 2,700 34.66% Frederick W. Smith

Service: 4 years 10 months 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 28,210 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
37		 New Brunswick
19 June 1930
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32351(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
59
CONS
 2/6 5,480 58.28% +1,557 Loser:
LIB
 3,923 41.72% Wendell P. Jones

Service: 5 years 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 32,081 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
38		 New Brunswick
27 June 1935
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32371(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
64
CONS
 1/6 5,430 50.78% +54 Loser:
LIB
 5,376 50.27% N.P. Grant

Service: 4 years 4 months 23 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 28,928 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
39		 New Brunswick
20 November 1939
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32388(F) — 12 Feb 2022 10:55 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
69
CONS
 3/6 5,258 54.53% +761 Loser:
LIB
 4,497 46.63% Roy F. Smith
After his election:
22 Apr 1942 71
CONS
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 2 years 5 months 2 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 27,497 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 9
Provincial
40		 New Brunswick
28 August 1944
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32408(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
71		 Successor:
PC
 4,811 52.49% Frederick C. Squires

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
E.W. Melville		 02 Sep 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  2 Sep 2023 13:54 (but data presented dynamically)

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