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♂ J. Rutherford Messer
aliasJ. Rutherford Messer
Record
43091 · 11073

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 1 1 2
Birth 10 December 1889 → 134 years + 4 months ago
Lived 59 years + 5 months
First mandate 20 November 1939 → 84 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 49 years + 11 months
Death 27 May 1949 → 74 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 4 years + 9 months after 27 August 1944
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 4 9 7 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
10 documented challengers
⊖ Donald T. Cochrane  m 
⊖ C. Hedley Forbes  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ H. Ralph Gunter  m 
⊖ John B. McNair  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Ernest W. Stairs  m 
 		 ⊖ Harry A. Corey  m 
⊖ Harry C. Greenlaw  m 
⊖ Arthur J. McEvoy  m 
⊖ Charles Price  m 
⊖ William J. West  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 68,970 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
39		 New Brunswick
20 November 1939
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32403(F) — 6 Aug 2023 20:20 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
49
CONS
 4/8 8,819 51.15% +384 Loser:
LIB
 8,435 48.92% John B. McNair

Service: 4 years 9 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 68,222 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 12
Provincial
40		 New Brunswick
28 August 1944
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32423(F) — 6 Aug 2023 20:20 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
54
PC
 7/12 7,421 43.51% -284 Winner:
LIB
 7,705 45.17% Donald T. Cochrane

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
John Rutherford Messer		 02 Sep 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  2 Sep 2023 16:29 (but data presented dynamically)

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