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♂ Ambroise D. Richard
aliasAmbroise D. Richard
Record
52367 · 10960

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 1 2 3
Birth 6 February 1850 → 174 years + 2 months ago
Lived ± 66 years
First mandate 9 October 1895 → 128 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 45 years + 8 months
Death c. 1917 → 107 years ago
Exit → Death ± 17 years + 10 months after 17 February 1899
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 3 4 9 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
10 documented challengers
⊖ Frank B. Black  m 
⊖ William F. Humphrey  m 
⊖ Olivier-Maximin Melanson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Clifford W. Robinson  m 
⊖ Frederick W. Sumner  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Arthur B. Copp  m 
⊖ Amasa E. Killam  m 
⊖ Henry A. Powell  m 
⊖ John W.Y. Smith  m 
⊖ W. Woodbury Wells  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 26,601 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
28		 New Brunswick
22 October 1892
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32134(F) — 10 Feb 2022 22:11 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
42
CONS
 5/8 3,317 49.88% -4 Winner:
LIB
 3,321 49.94% W. Woodbury Wells
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 New Brunswick
9 October 1895
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32155(F) — 10 Feb 2022 22:23 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
45
CONS
 3/4 By acclamation

Service: 3 years 4 months 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 31,971 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
30		 New Brunswick
18 February 1899
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32179(F) — 10 Feb 2022 22:36 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
49
CONS
 7/8 3,922 49.07% -100 Winner:
LIB
 4,022 50.32% W. Woodbury Wells

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Ambroise D. Richard		 24 Sep 2023
FR Wikipédia
Ambroise Richard		 24 Sep 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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