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♂ William J. Swanton
aliasWilliam J. Swanton
Record
59793 · 11139

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 1 0 1
Birth 2 October 1874 → 149 years + 6 months ago
Lived 69 years + 5 months
First mandate 20 November 1939 → 84 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 65 years + 1 month
Death 9 March 1944 → 80 years + 1 month 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 3 18 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
6 documented challengers
⊖ Edward J. Henneberry  m 
⊖ Alexander P. Paterson  m 
⊖ W. Grant Smith  m 
 		 ⊖ Ralph G. McInerney  m 
⊖ Horace A. Porter  m 
⊖ James S. Tait  m 
 
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
65
CONS
 3/9 8,752 54.24% +1,178 Loser:
LIB
 7,574 46.94% Edward J. Henneberry
After his election:
9 Mar 1944 69
CONS
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 4 years 3 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 78,259 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 12
Provincial
40		 New Brunswick
28 August 1944
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32418(F) — 17 Jun 2023 09:02 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
69		 Successor:
PC
 7,822 39.98% Laurance T. Dow

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
William James Swanton		 08 Sep 2023
EN Wikipedia
39th New Brunswick Legislature		 08 Sep 2023

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