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♂ Joseph Tait
aliasJoseph Tait
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Ontario 1 1 2
Birth 21 October 1839 → 184 years + 6 months ago
Lived 71 years + 4 months
First mandate 5 June 1890 → 133 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 50 years + 7 months
Death 18 March 1911 → 113 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 8 months after 25 June 1894
Special notes
None
 
Joseph Tait (1839–1911)
© Photo — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Tait died at age 71 after falling down an elevator shaft and fracturing his hip. He had not been an Ontario Liberal MPP for nearly 17 years at the time of his death.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Ontario 4 0 20 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Robert Bell  m 
⊖ Henry E. Clarke  m 
 		 ⊖ Edward F. Clarke  m 
⊖ George F. Marter  m 
 
Eligible: 43,265 Votes: 31,400 Participation: 36.28% Candidacies: 7
Provincial
7		 Ontario
5 June 1890
General
Plurality-at-large (3)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33297(F) — 26 Aug 2023 18:15 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
50
LIB
 3/7 5,359 51.20% +162 Loser:
LIB
 5,197 49.65% Alfred McDougall

Service: 4 years 20 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 10,239 Votes: 7,291 Participation: 71.21% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
8		 Ontario
26 June 1894
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 33403(F) — 31 Dec 2022 10:10 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
54
LIB
 2/2 3,202 44.42% -805 Winner:
LC
 4,007 55.58% George F. Marter

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Joseph Tait		 17 Mar 2024
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Joseph Tait		 17 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Joseph Tait		 17 Mar 2024

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