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♂ Rufus Palmer
aliasRufus Palmer
Record
47726 · 10648

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 1 0 1
Birth 23 March 1828 → 196 years + 1 month ago
Lived ± 45 years
First mandate 9 July 1870 → 153 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 42 years + 3 months
Death c. 10 July 1873 → 150 years + 9 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Acalus L. Palmer (1820–1899) Brother  
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 3 0 1 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Charles A. Peck  m 
 		 ⊖ James Ryan  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,547 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
22		 New Brunswick
9 July 1870
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 31969(F) — 16 Jun 2023 19:52 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
42
LIB
 1/6 846 66.41% +489 Loser:
IND
 357 28.02% J. Beattie
After his election:
10 Jul 1873 45
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 3 years 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,186 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
22		 New Brunswick
16 August 1873
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32013(F) — 16 Jun 2023 19:52 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
45		 Successor:
LIB
 595 50.17% Martin B. Palmer

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Rufus Palmer		 28 Aug 2023

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Rev.: 28 Aug 2023 00:49 (but data presented dynamically)

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