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♂ Horace A. Porter
aliasHorace A. Porter
Record
50295 · 11138

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 1 1 2
Birth 20 July 1879 → 144 years + 9 months ago
Lived 73 years + 6 months
First mandate 27 June 1935 → 88 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 55 years + 11 months
Death 13 February 1953 → 71 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 13 years + 2 months after 19 November 1939
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 4 23 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
10 documented challengers
⊖ W. Henry Harrison  m 
⊖ Ralph G. McInerney  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William F. Roberts  m 
⊖ William J. Swanton  m 
⊖ Leonard P.D. Tilley  m 
 		 ⊖ Edward J. Henneberry  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Alexander P. Paterson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ W. Grant Smith  m 
⊖ James S. Tait  m 
⊖ Walter W. White  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 78,796 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
38		 New Brunswick
27 June 1935
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32381(F) — 12 Feb 2022 10:46 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
55
LIB
 3/8 10,803 54.84% +1,809 Loser:
CONS
 8,994 45.66% W. Henry Harrison

Service: 4 years 4 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 64,539 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 9
Provincial
39		 New Brunswick
20 November 1939
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32398(F) — 17 Jun 2023 09:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
60
LIB
 6/9 7,122 44.14% -1,309 Winner:
CONS
 8,431 52.25% James S. Tait

Online biographical reference

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Horace A. Porter		 16 Oct 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 16 Oct 2023 13:06 (but data presented dynamically)

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