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♂ John Alexander Young
aliasJohn Young
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 80%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 4 1 5
Birth 26 March 1854 → 170 years + 1 month ago
Lived 80 years + 4 months
First mandate 3 March 1908 → 116 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 53 years + 11 months
Death 28 July 1934 → 89 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 8 years + 11 months after 9 August 1925
Special notes
None
 

No photo available
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 17 5 3 Z

Electoral history

Races 5  
Path points 6  
12 documented challengers
⊖ George W. Allen  m 
⊖ John A. Campbell  m 
⊖ Samuel B. Hunter  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Oscar E. Morehouse  m 
⊖ Charles D. Richards  m 
⊖ Ernest W. Stairs  m 
 		 ⊖ George F. Burden  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ William C. Crocket  m 
⊖ Harry F. McLeod  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ James K. Pinder  m  (5 runoffs)
⊖ Thomas Robison  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ W. Turney Whitehead  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 18,668 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
31		 New Brunswick
28 February 1903
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32207(F) — 9 Sep 2023 09:50 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
48
CONS
 8/8 1,818 38.95% -941 Winner:
IND
 2,759 59.12% George F. Burden
Eligible: inc. Votes: 23,431 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
32		 New Brunswick
3 March 1908
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32233(F) — 9 Sep 2023 09:47 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
53
CONS
 2/8 3,572 60.98% +1,239 Loser:
IND
 2,333 39.83% ? Goodspeed

Service: 4 years 3 months 16 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 22,861 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
33		 New Brunswick
20 June 1912
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32262(F) — 14 Jun 2023 21:34 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
CONS
 4/8 4,028 70.48% +2,340 Loser:
LIB
 1,688 29.54% William J. Osborne

Service: 4 years 8 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 23,495 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
34		 New Brunswick
24 February 1917
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32288(F) — 30 Sep 2023 11:29 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
62
CONS
 4/8 3,170 53.97% +352 Loser:
IND
 2,818 47.97% ? Burtt

Service: 3 years 7 months 14 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 35,392 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 12
Provincial
35		 New Brunswick
9 October 1920
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32310(F) — 11 Feb 2022 22:23 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
66
CONS
 3/12 3,929 44.41% +740 Loser:
LIB
 3,189 36.04% James B. Dickson

Service: 4 years 10 months (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 24,049 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 6
Provincial
36		 New Brunswick
10 August 1925
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32336(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
71		 Successor:
CONS
 5,163 64.41% James M. Scott

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
John Alexander Young		 14 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
John Young (York County, New Brunswick politician)		 29 Jul 2023

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