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♂ Benjamin R. Stevenson
aliasBenjamin R. Stevenson
Record
58933 · 10728

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 83%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
New Brunswick 5 0 5
Total 5 1 6
Birth 10 April 1835 → 189 years ago
Lived 54 years + 9 months
First mandate 10 October 1867 → 156 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 32 years + 6 months
Death 16 January 1890 → 134 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 7 years + 7 months after 31 May 1882
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 14 5 5 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 24
LIB
 1 Speaker 43–47 27 Feb 1879 — 31 May 1882 3 3 4

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 7  
11 documented challengers
⊖ Thomas Cottrell  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Henry Frye  m 
⊖ Francis Hibbard  m 
⊖ James E. Lynott  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James McKay  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ James Russell  m 
 		 ⊖ Joseph Donald  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ Arthur H. Gillmor  m 
⊖ George F. Hill  m 
⊖ John McAdam  m 
⊖ James Murchie  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 3,762 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Provincial
21		 New Brunswick
10 October 1867
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONF  Majority
ID: 35664(F) — 5 Aug 2023 21:09 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
32
CONS
 1/5 993 26.40% +146 Loser:
IND
 847 22.51% Joseph Donald

Service: 2 years 7 months 21 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 8,700 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
22		 New Brunswick
5 July 1870
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 31971(F) — 5 Aug 2023 21:09 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
35
LIB
 1/8 1,550 71.26% +657 Loser:
IND
 893 41.06% J.S. Robinson
After his election:
1 Mar 1871 35
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Successfully ran in a ministerial by-election
Service: 7 months 24 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,082 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
22		 New Brunswick
16 March 1871
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32006(F) — 13 Oct 2022 22:52 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
35
LIB
 1/2 1,392 66.86% +702 Loser:
IND
 690 33.14% James Russell

Service: 3 years 2 months 15 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 10,721 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
23		 New Brunswick
13 June 1874
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 31986(F) — 5 Aug 2023 21:09 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
39
LIB
 2/8 1,970 73.51% +912 Loser:
IND
 1,058 39.48% Melbourne McMonagle

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 8,338 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 12
Provincial
24		 New Brunswick
13 June 1878
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32024(F) — 5 Aug 2023 21:09 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
43
LIB
 1/12 1,333 63.93% +405 Loser:
IND
 928 44.51% David Main

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 8,797 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 14
Provincial
25		 New Brunswick
1 June 1882
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32045(F) — 5 Aug 2023 22:29 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
47		 Successor:
IND
 839 38.15% George F. Hibbard
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,802 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Federal
5		 New Brunswick
20 June 1882
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 19195(F) — 12 Sep 2021 18:16 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
47
IND
 2/2 1,244 44.40% -314 Winner:
LIB
 1,558 55.60% Arthur H. Gillmor

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Speakers of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
Hon. Benjamin Robert Stevenson		 03 Sep 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Présidents de l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick
L’hon. Benjamin Robert Stevenson		 03 Sep 2023
EN Wikipedia
Benjamin Robert Stephenson		 03 Sep 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  3 Sep 2023 18:47 (but data presented dynamically)

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