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♂ Bliss Botsford
aliasBliss Botsford
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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New Brunswick 2 0 2
Birth 26 November 1813 → 210 years + 5 months ago
Lived 76 years + 4 months
First mandate 5 June 1866 → 157 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 52 years + 6 months
Death 5 April 1890 → 134 years ago
Exit → Death 19 years + 3 months after 10 December 1870
Special notes
None
 
Bliss Botsford (1813–1890)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, New Brunswick — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Botsford died in Moncton, New Brunswick, of massive fractures and internal haemor­rhages after collapsing while descending a flight of stairs and falling through a large window to the board sidewalk below. Mayor of Moncton in 1862 and speaker of the legislative assembly from 1868 to 1870, he was no longer an MLA for Westmorland at the time of his death at age 76.
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 4 5 0 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NB 21
IND
 1 Speaker 54–56 13 Feb 1868 — 31 May 1870 2 3 18

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
9 documented challengers
⊖ William J. Gilbert  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Amand Landry  m 
⊖ Angus McQueen  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Acalus L. Palmer  m 
⊖ James Steadman  m 
 		 ⊖ Daniel L. Hanington  m 
⊖ Pierre-Amand Landry  m 
⊖ Joseph L. Moore  m 
⊖ Albert J. Smith  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 12,641 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
21		 New Brunswick
5 June 1866
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONF  Majority
ID: 35652(F) — 14 Jun 2023 22:49 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
IND
 2/8 1,841 58.26% +422 Loser:
CONS
 1,419 44.91% Acalus L. Palmer

Service: 3 years 11 months 26 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 9,212 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 10
Provincial
22		 New Brunswick
5 July 1870
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 31982(F) — 14 Jun 2023 22:49 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
56
IND
 3/10 1,216 52.80% +119 Loser:
CONS
 1,097 47.63% Daniel L. Hanington
After his election:
10 Dec 1870 57
IND
 →
Vac.
 To accept an appointment (judge, senator, etc.)
Service: 5 months 5 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,252 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
22		 New Brunswick
26 December 1870
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32004(F) — 14 Jun 2023 22:49 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
57		 Successor:
CONS
 1,358 60.30% Daniel L. Hanington

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Botsford, Bliss		 11 Feb 2024
FR Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Botsford, Bliss		 11 Feb 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Speakers of the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
Hon. Bliss Botsford		 11 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick, Présidents de l'Assemblée législative du Nouveau-Brunswick
L’hon. Bliss Botsford		 11 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Bliss Botsford		 11 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Bliss Botsford		 11 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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