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♂ William Hespeler
aliasWilliam Hespeler
Record
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German-Canadian    Anglican   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 1 2
Birth 29 December 1830 → 193 years + 3 months ago
Lived 90 years + 3 months
First mandate 7 December 1899 → 124 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age 68 years + 11 months
Death 18 April 1921 → 103 years ago
Exit → Death 17 years + 8 months after 19 July 1903
Special notes
None
 
William Hespeler (1830–1921)
© Photo 1913 — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 3 7 10 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 10
CONS
 1 Speaker 69–72 29 Mar 1900 — 19 Jul 1903 3 3 20

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Enoch Winkler  m  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 164 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
7		 Manitoba
11 July 1888
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36542(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
57
IND
 2/2 58 35.37% -48 Winner:
LIB
 106 64.63% Enoch Winkler
Eligible: 988 Votes: 499 Participation: 50.51% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
10		 Manitoba
7 December 1899
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36717(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
68
CONS
 1/2 258 51.70% +17 Loser:
LIB
 241 48.30% Enoch Winkler

Service: 3 years 7 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 907 Votes: 787 Participation: 86.77% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
20 July 1903
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36871(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
72		 Successor:
LIB
 355 45.11% Valentine Winkler

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Hespeler, Wilhelm		 10 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Hespeler, Wilhelm		 10 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
William Hespeler (1830-1921)		 10 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
William Hespeler		 10 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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