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♂ Frank L. Potts
aliasFrank L. Potts
Record
50378 · 11106

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 2 1 3
Birth 20 May 1867 → 156 years + 11 months ago
Lived 58 years + 7 months
First mandate 24 February 1917 → 107 years + 2 months ago
↳ at age 49 years + 9 months
Death 7 January 1926 → 98 years + 3 months ago
Died in office Yes
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 0 11 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
10 documented challengers
⊖ John B.M. Baxter  m 
⊖ L. Murray Curren  m 
⊖ Philip Grannan  m 
⊖ James Lewis  m 
⊖ William E. Scully  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ John R. Campbell  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Walter E. Foster  m 
⊖ Robert T. Hayes  m 
⊖ William F. Roberts  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Leonard P.D. Tilley  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 27,965 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
34		 New Brunswick
24 February 1917
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32283(F) — 16 Jun 2023 20:55 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
49
CONS
 3/8 3,547 50.74% +64 Loser:
IND
 3,483 49.82% Philip Grannan

Service: 3 years 7 months 14 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 45,933 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
35		 New Brunswick
9 October 1920
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32305(F) — 12 Aug 2023 21:56 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
53
CONS
 8/8 5,287 46.04% -314 Winner:
LIB
 5,601 48.78% Robert T. Hayes
Eligible: inc. Votes: 10,474 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
36		 New Brunswick
10 August 1925
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32332(F) — 12 Feb 2022 09:57 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
58
CONS
 2/4 3,002 57.32% +771 Loser:
LIB
 2,231 42.60% L. Murray Curren
After his election:
7 Jan 1926 58
CONS
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 4 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
36		 New Brunswick
10 December 1926
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 32347(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:16 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
58		 Successor:
CONS
 Acclam. H. Colby Smith

Online biographical reference

 Retrieved on
EN Wikipedia
Frank L. Potts		 16 Oct 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 16 Oct 2023 13:10 (but data presented dynamically)

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