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♂ Samuel Factor
aliasSamuel Factor
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 3 0 3
Birth 26 October 1892 → 131 years + 6 months ago
Lived 69 years + 9 months
First mandate 28 July 1930 → 93 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 37 years + 9 months
Death 21 August 1962 → 61 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 17 years + 4 months after 16 April 1945
Special notes
None
 
Samuel Factor (1892–1962)
© Photo 1940 House of Commons (Canada) — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
After being a Toronto-area Liberal MP from 1930 to 1945, Factor was appointed judge. Today, he is considered ahead of his time with regards to illicit drugs. He believed that drug dealers should be treated harshly by the law. But he also believed that drug addicts should be viewed as people with an illness rather than criminals, and pleaded with the federal government to change the law so that the court could send them to hospital for treatment rather than to prison.
 

Elections or appointments outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council Toronto, Ontario (1926; 1929–1930)
School Board ✓
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 14 8 17

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
5 documented challengers
⊖ David A. Balfour  m 
⊖ Nathan Phillips  m 
⊖ Stewart Smith  m 
 		 ⊖ Thomas L. Church  m 
⊖ Joseph B. Salsberg  m 
 
Eligible: 31,136 Votes: 17,055 Participation: 54.78% Candidacies: 4
Federal
17		 Ontario
28 July 1930
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 22453(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
37
LIB
 1/4 8,367 49.06% +564 Loser:
LC
 7,803 45.75% Thomas L. Church

Service: 5 years 2 months 15 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 52,160 Votes: 33,759 Participation: 64.72% Candidacies: 5
Federal
18		 Ontario
14 October 1935
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22725(F) — 21 Feb 2022 19:48 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
LIB
 1/5 14,768 43.75% +4,721 Loser:
LC
 10,047 29.76% Nathan Phillips

Service: 4 years 5 months 11 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 56,944 Votes: 37,576 Participation: 65.99% Candidacies: 3
Federal
19		 Ontario
26 March 1940
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22998(F) — 5 Sep 2022 22:59 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
LIB
 1/3 20,506 54.57% +6,358 Loser:
NATG
 14,148 37.65% George G. Blackstock
After his election:
16 Apr 1945 52
LIB
 →
Vac.
 To accept an appointment (judge, senator, etc.)
Service: 5 years 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 58,732 Votes: 41,643 Participation: 70.90% Candidacies: 4
Federal
20		 Ontario
11 June 1945
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 23258(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
52		 Successor:
LIB
 17,978 43.17% David A. Croll

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Samuel Factor		 21 Mar 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Samuel Factor		 21 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Samuel Factor (Canadian politician)		 21 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 21 Mar 2024 23:01 (but data presented dynamically)

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