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♂ Edward Williston
aliasEdward Williston
Record
65474 · 10988

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 1 0 1
Birth 18 October 1813 → 210 years + 6 months ago
Lived 75 years + 9 months
First mandate 25 May 1866 → 157 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 52 years + 7 months
Death 28 July 1889 → 134 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 22 years + 13 days after 15 July 1867
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 1 1 20 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Richard Hutchison  m 
⊖ George Kerr  m 
 		 ⊖ John M. Johnson  m 
⊖ Richard Sutton  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 6,502 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
21		 New Brunswick
25 May 1866
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONF  Majority
ID: 35645(F) — 17 Aug 2023 07:30 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
52
IND
 3/6 1,263 77.68% +423 Loser:
CONS
 840 51.66% Richard Hutchison
After his election:
15 Jul 1867 53
IND
 →
Vac.
 To accept an appointment (judge, senator, etc.)
Service: 1 year 1 month 20 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacies: 2
Provincial
21		 New Brunswick
10 August 1867
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONF  Majority
ID: 35656(F) — 22 Oct 2022 16:43 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
53		 Successor:
IND
 Acclam. William M. Kelly

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Dictionary of Miramichi Biography, Williston, Edward (1813-1887)		 17 Oct 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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