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♂ William Wheten
aliasWilliam Wheten
Record
64841 · 10883

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 3 0 3
Birth c. 1846 → 178 years ago
Lived ± 58 years
First mandate 1 June 1882 → 141 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age ± 36 years
Death c. 1904 → 120 years ago
Exit → Death ± 16 years + 5 months after 15 July 1887
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 5 0 18 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Urbain Johnson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Charles J. Sayre  m  (3 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Olivier J. LeBlanc  m  (3 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,800 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Provincial
25		 New Brunswick
1 June 1882
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32047(F) — 5 Sep 2023 17:22 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±36
IND
 1/5 1,571 65.46% +585 Loser:
IND
 986 41.08% Charles J. Sayre
After his election:
1 Sep 1882 ±36
IND
 →
Vac.
 Election cancelled/Unseated
Service: 3 months (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,516 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
25		 New Brunswick
25 September 1882
By-Election
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32059(F) — 5 Sep 2023 17:22 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±36
IND
 2/4 1,769 78.34% +1,216 Loser:
IND
 553 24.49% Charles J. Sayre

Service: 3 years 7 months (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,037 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Provincial
26		 New Brunswick
26 April 1886
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32079(F) — 5 Sep 2023 17:22 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±40
IND
 2/5 1,232 48.91% +136 Loser:
LIB
 1,096 43.51% Urbain Johnson
After his election:
15 Jul 1887 ±41
IND
 →
Vac.
 To accept an appointment (judge, senator, etc.)
Service: 1 year 2 months 19 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,493 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
26		 New Brunswick
10 August 1887
By-Election
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32094(F) — 5 Sep 2023 17:22 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±41		 Successor:
CONS
 1,309 58.26% James D. Phinney

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Ancestry.com, William Owen Wheten		 09 Oct 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  9 Oct 2023 17:37 (but data presented dynamically)

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