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♂ Walter C. Lawson
aliasWalter C. Lawson
Record
34742 · 10701

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 2 0 2
Birth 1 February 1889 → 135 years + 2 months ago
Lived ± 80 years
First mandate 27 June 1935 → 88 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 46 years + 4 months
Death c. 1970 → 54 years ago
Exit → Death ± 25 years + 4 months after 27 August 1944
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Gordon R. Lawson (1898–1954) Brother  
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 9 1 30 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Ewart C. Atkinson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Gabriel F. Smith  m 
 		 ⊖ Frederic A. McGrand  m 
⊖ Alton D. Taylor  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 7,484 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
38		 New Brunswick
27 June 1935
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32383(F) — 12 Feb 2022 10:51 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
46
LIB
 2/4 1,956 52.27% +165 Loser:
CONS
 1,791 47.86% Ewart C. Atkinson

Service: 4 years 4 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 12,600 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
39		 New Brunswick
20 November 1939
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32400(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
LIB
 1/4 4,021 63.83% +1,612 Loser:
CONS
 2,409 38.24% Ewart C. Atkinson

Service: 4 years 9 months 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 7,461 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
40		 New Brunswick
28 August 1944
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32420(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
55		 Successor:
LIB
 1,635 43.82% Gordon R. Lawson

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Walter C. Lawson		 21 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 21 Aug 2023 01:56 (but data presented dynamically)

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