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♂ Charles Gallagher
aliasCharles Gallagher
Record
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☆   Irish-Canadian    Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
British Columbia 2 0 2
Birth c. 1833 → 191 years ago
Lived ± 65 years
First mandate 7 October 1875 → 148 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age ± 42 years
Death 16 January 1898 → 126 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 15 years + 5 months after 22 July 1882
Special notes
None
 

Charles Gallagher (c.1833–1898)
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Family tie with other documented individual
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Well that's interesting!
Gallagher was a British Columbian MLA from 1875 to 1882. The title of his obituary was "Cut to Pieces," as he was run over by the Victoria to Sidney train. His death was deemed accidental, but the accident was described thus: "It is thought that he lay down on the track, for when the train from Sidney reached the cut near Beaver Lake at 6 o'clock, the engineer saw an object on the track a couple of lengths ahead as he rounded the curve, and though the air brakes were on and the engine reversed immediately, it was impossible to stop the train quickly enough to save Gallagher. The unfortunate man must have been at once killed for the wheels passed over his legs and the lower part of the body, crushing it terribly."
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
British Columbia 6 9 13 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Robert L.T. Galbraith  m 
⊖ Arthur W. Vowell  m 
 		 ⊖ William C. Milby  m 
 
Eligible: 45 Votes: 63 Participation: 70.00% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
2		 British Columbia
7 October 1875
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28624(F) — 7 Oct 2023 19:35 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±42
REF
 1/4 16 50.00% 0 Loser:
REF
 16 50.00% Robert L.T. Galbraith
After his election:
8 Oct 1875 ±42
REF
 →
GOV
 Changed allegiance (joined government)
Service: 2 years 7 months 14 days (Oppo. & Gov't)
Eligible: 28 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacies: 2
Provincial
3		 British Columbia
22 May 1878
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28644(F) — 23 Jul 2023 18:43 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
±45
OPPO
 2/2 By acclamation

Service: 4 years 2 months (Oppo.)
Eligible: 30 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
4		 British Columbia
23 July 1882
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Minority
ID: 28661(F) — 23 Jul 2023 18:46 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
±49		 Successor:
GOV
 Acclam. Robert L.T. Galbraith

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Elections BC and the Legislative Library, An Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986
(pp. 21-22, 29, 377, 497)		 23 Dec 2023
EN Find a Grave
Charles Gallagher		 23 Dec 2023

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