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♂ George Sterling Ansel Ryerson
aliasGeorge Sterling Ansel Ryerson
Record
54577 · 11597

☆   Protestant   ∞1
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Ontario 2 0 2
Birth 21 January 1855 → 169 years + 3 months ago
Lived 70 years + 3 months
First mandate 28 February 1893 → 131 years + 2 months ago
↳ at age 38 years + 1 month
Death 20 May 1925 → 98 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 27 years + 2 months after 28 February 1898
Special notes
None
 
George Sterling Ansel Ryerson (1855–1925)
© Photo c.1901–02 John Alexander Cooper — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ William Mulock (1843–1944) Brother-in-law
 
Well that's interesting!
Ryerson, an Ontario Conservative MPP from 1893 to 1898, had married Mary Amelia Crowther on November 14, 1882. She was on board the Lusitania with their daughter Laura when it was sunk off the Irish coast in May 1915. Laura survived, but Mary Amelia did not.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Ontario 4 11 29 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
7		 Ontario
28 February 1893
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33719(F) — 22 Feb 2022 07:51 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
38
LC
 1/1 By acclamation ?

Service: 1 year 3 months 28 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 8,303 Votes: 5,148 Participation: 62.00% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
8		 Ontario
26 June 1894
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33388(F) — 31 Dec 2022 10:10 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
39
CPP
 1/2 3,401 66.12% +1,658 Loser:
LAPA
 1,743 33.88% John Armstrong

Service: 3 years 8 months 2 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,832 Votes: 4,603 Participation: 67.37% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
9		 Ontario
1 March 1898
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33483(F) — 30 Dec 2022 19:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
43		 Successor:
LC
 3,103 67.78% Robert A. Pyne

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
George Sterling Ansel Ryerson		 16 Mar 2024
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
George Sterling Ansel Ryerson		 16 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
George Ryerson		 16 Mar 2024
FR Wikipédia
George Ryerson		 16 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 16 Mar 2024 22:52 (but data presented dynamically)

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