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♂ Samuel Clark Biggs
aliasSamuel Biggs
Record
4800 · 13907

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 2 1 3
Birth 8 October 1851 → 172 years + 6 months ago
Lived 59 years + 11 months
First mandate 18 December 1878 → 145 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age 27 years + 2 months
Death 27 September 1911 → 112 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 31 years + 9 months after 15 December 1879
Special notes
None
 
Samuel Clark Biggs (1851–1911)
© Photo 1878 Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family ties with other documented individuals
⊖ Frank C. Biggs (1881–1942) Nephew  
⊖ Edmund B. Wood (1820–1882) Uncle  
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 0 11 11 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Charles S. Douglas  m 
 		 ⊖ John H. O'Donnell  m 
 
Eligible: 229 Votes: 139 Participation: 60.70% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
3		 Manitoba
18 December 1878
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Majority
ID: 28321(F) — 5 Feb 2023 23:17 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
27
IND
 1/3 91 65.47% +52 Loser:
IND
 39 28.06% John H. O'Donnell
After his election:
1 Jun 1879 27
IND
 →
Vac.
 Successfully ran in a ministerial by-election
Service: 5 months 14 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
3		 Manitoba
17 June 1879
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  GOV  Majority
ID: 28329(F) — 14 Oct 2022 20:40 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
27
GOV
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 5 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 176 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
4		 Manitoba
16 December 1879
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 28335(F) — 5 Feb 2023 20:26 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
28		 Successor:
LICO
 107 60.80% Alexander M. Sutherland
Eligible: 791 Votes: 509 Participation: 64.35% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
6		 Manitoba
9 December 1886
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36478(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
35
LIB
 2/2 192 37.72% -125 Winner:
CONS
 317 62.28% Charles S. Douglas

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Biggs, Samuel Clark		 11 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Biggs, Samuel Clark		 11 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Samuel Clarke Biggs (1851-1911)		 11 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Samuel Clarke Biggs		 11 Apr 2024

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