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♂ Harry Ames
aliasHarry Ames
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 6 0 6
Birth 14 January 1896 → 128 years + 3 months ago
Lived 77 years + 11 months
First mandate 22 September 1952 → 71 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 56 years + 8 months
Death 14 December 1973 → 50 years + 4 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 

No photo available
Family tie with other documented individual
⊕ Richard Ames Grandson  
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 21 2 16 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 8  
9 documented challengers
⊖ G. Everett Chalmers  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Harry A. Corey  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ C. Weldon Lawrence  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ John B. McNair  m 
⊖ William J. West  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Donald T. Cochrane  m 
⊖ Harry C. Greenlaw  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John F. McInerney  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ Carl O. Mooers  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 85,831 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 12
Provincial
42		 New Brunswick
22 September 1952
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32461(F) — 14 Sep 2021 22:01 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
56
PC
 4/12 10,362 48.29% +153 Loser:
LIB
 10,209 47.58% John B. McNair

Service: 3 years 8 months 26 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 85,306 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 9
Provincial
43		 New Brunswick
18 June 1956
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32478(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
PC
 4/9 12,206 57.23% +3,157 Loser:
LIB
 9,049 42.43% Harry A. Corey

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 92,639 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
44		 New Brunswick
27 June 1960
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32495(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
64
PC
 3/8 12,487 53.92% +1,783 Loser:
LIB
 10,704 46.22% R.V. Limerick

Service: 2 years 9 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 94,970 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
45		 New Brunswick
22 April 1963
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32515(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
67
PC
 4/8 13,974 58.86% +4,188 Loser:
LIB
 9,786 41.22% D.W. Gallagher

Service: 4 years 5 months 20 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,278 Votes: 20,169 Participation: 82.28% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
46		 New Brunswick
13 October 1967
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32536(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
71
PC
 1/4 5,616 55.69% +861 Loser:
LIB
 4,755 47.15% John Fawcett

Service: 3 years 12 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 13,703 Votes: 21,288 Participation: 83.20% Candidacies: 6
Provincial
47		 New Brunswick
26 October 1970
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32567(F) — 12 Feb 2022 15:47 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
74
PC
 1/6 6,050 56.84% +1,772 Loser:
LIB
 4,278 40.19% John Ker
After his election:
14 Dec 1973 77
PC
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 3 years 1 month 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 13,703 Votes: 9,910 Participation: 72.32% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
47		 New Brunswick
30 September 1974
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 32575(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:16 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
77		 Successor:
PC
 5,381 54.30% David A. Bishop

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Harry Ames		 07 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  7 Apr 2024 20:51 (but data presented dynamically)

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