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♂ Robert Duncan Wilmot
aliasRobert Duncan Wilmot
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased
A Father of Confederation 		Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
New Brunswick 1 0 1
Birth 16 October 1809 → 214 years + 6 months ago
Lived 81 years + 3 months
First mandate 6 June 1866 → 157 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 56 years + 7 months
Death 13 February 1891 → 133 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 23 years + 4 months after 1 October 1867
Conferences Confederation conferences attended
representing New Brunswick:
✗ Charlottetown (September 1864)
✗ Québec (October 1864)
✓ London (December 1866)
Special notes
None
 
Robert Duncan Wilmot (1809–1891)
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Robert D. Wilmot (1837–1920) Son  
 

Elections or appointments outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate New Brunswick (1867–1880)
Legis. Council ✗
Governor New Brunswick (1880–1885)
Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council ✗
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
New Brunswick 1 3 25 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 4
CONS
 1 Minister 69–70 08 Nov 1878 — 10 Feb 1880 1 3 2
 1. Without portfolio

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
6 documented challengers
⊖ Timothy W. Anglin  m 
⊖ John W. Cudlip  m 
⊖ James Quinton  m 
 		 ⊖ Joseph Coram  m 
⊖ John H. Gray  m 
⊖ Charles N. Skinner  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 15,930 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 8
Provincial
21		 New Brunswick
6 June 1866
General
Plurality-at-large (4)
Gov't  CONF  Majority
ID: 35649(F) — 9 Feb 2022 22:48 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
56
CONF
 2/8 2,316 58.15% +633 Loser:
IND
 1,683 42.25% Joseph Coram
After his election:
1 Oct 1867 57
CONF
 →
Vac.
 To accept an appointment (judge, senator, etc.)
Service: 1 year 3 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 4,703 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
21		 New Brunswick
15 October 1867
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONF  Majority
ID: 35666(F) — 22 Jul 2021 09:16 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
57		 Successor:
CONF
 1,269 26.98% George E. King

Online biographical references (4)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Wilmot, Robert Duncan		 16 Mar 2024
FR Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Wilmot, Robert Duncan		 16 Mar 2024
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. Robert Duncan Wilmot, P.C., Senator		 16 Mar 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. Robert Duncan Wilmot, C.P., sénateur		 16 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Duncan Wilmot		 16 Mar 2024
FR Wikipédia
Robert Duncan Wilmot		 16 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 16 Mar 2024 14:55 (but data presented dynamically)

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