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♂ Walter B. Dickson
aliasWalter B. Dickson
Record
16072 · 10655

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 2 0 2
Birth 26 December 1847 → 176 years + 4 months ago
Lived 68 years
First mandate 3 March 1908 → 116 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 60 years + 2 months
Death 23 January 1916 → 108 years + 3 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 7 10 20 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 33
IND
 1 Speaker 66–68 26 Feb 1914 — 23 Jan 1916 1 10 28

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Charles J. Osman  m 
⊖ Sanford S. Ryan  m 
 		 ⊖ George D. Prescott  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,332 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
32		 New Brunswick
3 March 1908
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32218(F) — 30 Sep 2023 16:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
60
IND
 1/4 1,182 54.57% +167 Loser:
LIB
 1,015 46.86% Charles J. Osman

Service: 4 years 3 months 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,320 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
33		 New Brunswick
20 June 1912
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32247(F) — 30 Sep 2023 16:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
64
IND
 1/4 1,140 52.78% +93 Loser:
IND
 1,047 48.47% John Lewis
After his election:
23 Jan 1916 68
IND
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 3 years 7 months 3 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 3,765 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
34		 New Brunswick
24 February 1917
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32272(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
68		 Successor:
CONS
 967 51.35% John L. Peck

Online biographical reference

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Speakers of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
Hon. Walter Brittain Dickson		 30 Sep 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Présidents de l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick
L’hon. Walter Brittain Dickson		 30 Sep 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 30 Sep 2023 15:58 (but data presented dynamically)

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