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♂ Walter R. Ferguson
aliasWalter R. Ferguson
Record
19588 · 12846

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Ontario 2 0 2
Birth c. 1841 → 183 years ago
Lived ± 84 years
First mandate 11 December 1911 → 112 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age ± 70 years
Death 22 February 1925 → 99 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 5 years + 4 months after 19 October 1919
Special notes
None
 

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 7 10 7 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Philip H. Bowyer  m 
 		 ⊖ Phillip J. Henry  m 
 
Eligible: 6,682 Votes: 4,709 Participation: 70.47% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Ontario
11 December 1911
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 33929(F) — 7 Oct 2023 12:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±70
LIB
 1/2 2,452 52.26% +212 Loser:
LC
 2,240 47.74% Philip H. Bowyer

Service: 2 years 6 months 17 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 5,828 Votes: 4,783 Participation: 82.07% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
14		 Ontario
29 June 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 34040(F) — 7 Oct 2023 12:39 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±73
LIB
 1/2 2,566 53.90% +371 Loser:
LC
 2,195 46.10% Phillip J. Henry

Service: 5 years 3 months 20 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,301 Votes: 10,066 Participation: 81.83% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Ontario
20 October 1919
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UFO  Minority
ID: 34173(F) — 17 Dec 2022 11:57 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±78		 Successor:
UFO
 5,374 55.28% James B. Clark

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
W R Ferguson		 24 Oct 2023
EN Legislative Assembly of Ontario: Members
Walter Renwick Ferguson		 24 Oct 2023
FR Assemblée législative de l'Ontario: Membres
Walter Renwick Ferguson		 24 Oct 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 24 Oct 2023 17:25 (but data presented dynamically)

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