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♂ Thomas Babbitt Parlee
aliasThomas Babbitt Parlee
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 2 1 3
Birth 13 March 1914 → 110 years + 1 month ago
Lived 42 years + 10 months
First mandate 22 September 1952 → 71 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 38 years + 6 months
Death 22 January 1957 → 67 years + 3 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
Thomas Babbitt Parlee (1914–1957)
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Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Residents of Moncton all know Parlee Beach, located 30 kilometres from downtown. However, perhaps few know that it was named after Thomas Parlee, mayor of Moncton from 1950 to 1952 and a New Brunswick Progressive Conservative MLA who died in office in late January 1957 in a plane crash in Kent County during a snow storm, en route from Moncton to Fredericton. The wreckage of the plane was only found the following May.
 

Elections or appointments outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve Moncton, New Brunswick (1950–1952)
Mun./Co. Council Moncton, New Brunswick (1944–1948)
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 4 3 29 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Charles H. Blakeny  m 
⊖ Ernest A. Fryers  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Joseph W. Bourgeois  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Claudius I. Léger  m  (3 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 23,691 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
41		 New Brunswick
28 June 1948
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32434(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
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 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
34
PC
 3/6 4,574 38.61% -1,616 Winner:
LIB
 6,190 52.25% Claudius I. Léger
Eligible: inc. Votes: 27,200 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
42		 New Brunswick
22 September 1952
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32452(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
38
PC
 1/6 7,259 53.38% +1,087 Loser:
LIB
 6,172 45.38% Claudius I. Léger

Service: 3 years 8 months 26 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 30,930 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
43		 New Brunswick
18 June 1956
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32469(F) — 12 Feb 2022 14:22 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
PC
 1/4 8,762 56.66% +1,937 Loser:
LIB
 6,825 44.13% Ernest A. Fryers
After his election:
22 Jan 1957 42
PC
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 7 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 37,714 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
44		 New Brunswick
27 June 1960
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32486(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
42		 Successor:
LIB
 9,652 51.19% Gilbert J. Robichaud

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T. Babbitt Parlee		 16 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 16 Mar 2024 21:27 (but data presented dynamically)

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