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♀ Edith Florence Rogers
aliasEdith Rogers
Record
53532 · 13946

☆   Anglican    Metis   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 0 3
Birth 26 April 1876 → 148 years ago
Lived 70 years + 11 months
First mandate 29 June 1920 → 103 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 44 years + 2 months
Death 19 April 1947 → 77 years ago
Exit → Death 14 years + 10 months after 15 June 1932
Special notes
None
 
Edith Florence Rogers (1876–1947)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Rogers was the first woman elected to the Manitoba legislature. A Liberal, she was one of the MLAs for Winnipeg from 1920 to 1932.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 11 11 14 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
61 documented challengers
⊖ George Armstrong  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ William J. Christie  m 
⊖ Harriet S. Dick  f 
⊖ William J. Donovan  m 
⊖ Bernard B. Dubienski  m 
⊖ Árni Eggertsson  m 
⊖ Seymour J. Farmer  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Charles H. Forrester  m 
⊖ John T. Haig  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Martha J.R. Hample  f 
⊖ William Ivens  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Richard J. Johns  m 
⊖ Frederick W. Law  m 
⊖ James Lightfoot  m 
⊖ Robert N. Lowery  m 
⊖ William J. Major  m 
⊖ Daniel McLean  m 
⊖ Edward W. Montgomery  m 
⊖ William C. Morden  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Charles K. Newcombe  m 
⊖ Jacob Penner  m 
⊖ William A. Pritchard  m 
⊖ Arthur W. Puttee  m 
⊖ Hugh A. Robson  m 
⊖ Francis Sedziak  m 
⊖ Max Steinkopf  m 
⊖ Arthur Sullivan  m 
⊖ William V. Tobias  m 
⊖ William J. Tupper  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ James Winning  m 
 		 ⊖ Royal Burritt  m 
⊖ George F. Chipman  m 
⊖ Richard W. Craig  m 
⊖ Frederick J. Dixon  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John K. Downes  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Robert Durward  m 
⊖ William S. Evans  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Edward B. Fisher  m 
⊖ Robert A. Gillespie  m 
⊖ Thomas G. Hamilton  m 
⊖ Theodore A. Hunt  m 
⊖ Robert Jacob  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Thomas H. Johnson  m 
⊖ George H. Lawrence  m 
⊖ Walter J. Lindal  m 
⊖ John MacLean  m 
⊖ H. Ralph Maybank  m 
⊖ William R. Milton  m 
⊖ Arthur E. Moore  m 
⊖ Thomas J. Murray  m 
⊖ William L. Parrish  m 
⊖ Matthew Popovitch  m 
⊖ George W. Prout  m 
⊖ John Queen  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Robert B. Russell  m 
⊖ James Simpkin  m 
⊖ John Stovel  m 
⊖ Frederick G. Tipping  m 
⊖ Walter H. Trueman  m 
⊖ Leoni S. Warde  m 
 
Eligible: 62,255 Votes: 47,427 Participation: 76.18% Candidacies: 41
Provincial
16		 Manitoba
29 June 1920
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 37184(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
44
LIB
 9/41 1,541 3.25% +6 Loser:
SOC
 1,535 3.24% Robert B. Russell

Service: 2 years 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 61,662 Votes: 44,328 Participation: 71.89% Candidacies: 43
Provincial
17		 Manitoba
18 July 1922
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37233(F) — 24 Sep 2023 10:44 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
LIB
 9/43 1,689 3.81% +94 Loser:
LIB
 1,595 3.60% Duncan Cameron

Service: 4 years 11 months 9 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 67,124 Votes: 50,706 Participation: 62.30% Candidacies: 25
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37331(F) — 3 Sep 2023 09:46 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
51
LIB
 7/25 1,582 3.12% -465 Loser:
MOD
 2,047 4.04% John K. Downes

Service: 4 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 119,754 Votes: 76,991 Participation: 64.29% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37381(F) — 3 Sep 2023 09:46 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
56		 Successor:
LIBP
 2,945 3.83% H. Ralph Maybank

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Rogers, Edith (Mrs.) McTavish		 18 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Rogers, Edith (Mme) McTavish		 18 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Florence Edith McTavish Rogers (1876-1947)		 18 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Edith Rogers (Manitoba politician)		 18 Apr 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 18 Apr 2024 22:07 (but data presented dynamically)

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