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♂ William M. Bird
aliasWilliam M. Bird
Record
4943 · 10812

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 2 1 3
Birth 2 February 1889 → 135 years + 2 months ago
Lived 78 years + 8 months
First mandate 22 September 1952 → 71 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 63 years + 7 months
Death 5 October 1967 → 56 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 7 years + 3 months after 26 June 1960
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 7 9 2 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
9 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph-Gaspard Boucher  m 
⊖ Edgar E. Fournier  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Laurier Lévesque  m 
⊖ Jean-Marc Michaud  m 
⊕ Frederick E. Soucy  m 
 		 ⊖ Lucien W. Fortin  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ J. Adrien Lévesque  m 
⊖ Harry E. Marmen  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Docithe J. Nadeau  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 38,420 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
42		 New Brunswick
22 September 1952
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32451(F) — 26 Apr 2024 21:06 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
63
PC
 3/6 7,071 55.21% +1,326 Loser:
LIB
 5,745 44.86% Joseph-Gaspard Boucher

Service: 3 years 8 months 26 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 39,752 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
43		 New Brunswick
18 June 1956
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32468(F) — 26 Apr 2024 21:06 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
67
PC
 3/6 7,714 58.21% +2,188 Loser:
LIB
 5,526 41.70% Harry E. Marmen

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 40,731 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
44		 New Brunswick
27 June 1960
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32485(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
71
PC
 6/6 5,823 42.89% -1,820 Winner:
LIB
 7,643 56.29% Jean-Marc Michaud

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
William M. Bird		 27 Jul 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 27 Jul 2023 23:02 (but data presented dynamically)

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