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♂ Edgar Watson
aliasEdgar Watson
Record
64190 · 11939

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Ontario 1 1 2
Birth c. 1880 → 144 years ago
Lived ± 77 years
First mandate 20 October 1919 → 104 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age ± 39 years
Death c. 1957 → 67 years ago
Exit → Death ± 33 years + 6 months after 24 June 1923
Special notes
Date of birth and death is an educated guess.
 

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
Ontario 3 8 3 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ James R. Mark  m 
 		 ⊖ Robert M. Mason  m 
 
Eligible: 9,118 Votes: 5,910 Participation: 64.82% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Ontario
20 October 1919
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UFO  Minority
ID: 34234(F) — 4 Sep 2023 14:10 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±39
UFO
 1/2 3,348 57.94% +918 Loser:
LC
 2,430 42.06% Robert M. Mason

Service: 3 years 8 months 4 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 8,716 Votes: 5,815 Participation: 66.72% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
16		 Ontario
25 June 1923
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 34361(F) — 4 Sep 2023 14:10 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
±43
UFO
 2/3 2,353 40.79% -358 Winner:
LC
 2,711 47.00% James R. Mark

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Edgar Watson		 04 Sep 2023
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Edgar Watson		 04 Sep 2023
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Edgar Watson		 04 Sep 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  4 Sep 2023 14:11 (but data presented dynamically)

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