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♂ James S. Tait
aliasJames S. Tait
Record
60015 · 11141

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 2 1 3
Birth 5 December 1885 → 138 years + 4 months ago
Lived 62 years + 8 months
First mandate 20 November 1939 → 84 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 53 years + 11 months
Death 20 August 1948 → 75 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 1 month + 24 days after 27 June 1948
Special notes
None
 

Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
New Brunswick 8 7 6 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
12 documented challengers
⊖ James W. Brittain  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Laurance T. Dow  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Edward J. Henneberry  m 
⊖ Edward R. McDonald  m 
⊖ Alexander P. Paterson  m 
⊖ W. Grant Smith  m  (3 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Robert H. Carlin  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Harold B. Gault  m 
⊖ S. Roy Kelly  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Ralph G. McInerney  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Horace A. Porter  m 
⊖ William J. Swanton  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
53
CONS
 4/9 8,431 52.25% +857 Loser:
LIB
 7,574 46.94% Edward J. Henneberry

Service: 4 years 9 months 7 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
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
PC
 3/12 7,908 40.42% +957 Loser:
LIB
 6,951 35.53% James W. Brittain

Service: 3 years 9 months 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 78,348 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 12
Provincial
41		 New Brunswick
28 June 1948
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 32438(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
62
PC
 7/12 6,929 35.38% -2,296 Winner:
LIB
 9,225 47.10% Harold B. Gault

Online biographical reference

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J. Starr Tait		 20 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 20 Aug 2023 11:05 (but data presented dynamically)

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