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♂ Watson M. Crosby
aliasWatson M. Crosby
Record
13542 · 14111

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 0 1
Birth 10 June 1857 → 166 years + 10 months ago
Lived 39 years + 9 months
First mandate 15 January 1896 → 128 years + 3 months ago
↳ at age 38 years + 7 months
Death 19 March 1897 → 127 years + 1 month ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 

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 1 2 2 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ James F. Frame  m 
 		 ⊖ William J. Kennedy  m 
 
Eligible: 1,405 Votes: 1,025 Participation: 72.95% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
9		 Manitoba
15 January 1896
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36612(F) — 17 Mar 2022 19:01 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
38
PATI
 1/3 393 38.34% +39 Loser:
LIB
 354 34.54% William J. Kennedy
After his election:
19 Mar 1897 39
PATI
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 1 year 2 months 4 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 1,405 Votes: 866 Participation: 61.64% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
9		 Manitoba
15 July 1897
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 36648(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
39		 Successor:
LIB
 525 60.62% William J. Kennedy

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Crosby, Watson Montgomery		 03 Aug 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Crosby, Watson Montgomery		 03 Aug 2023
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Watson Montgomery Crosby (1857-1897)		 03 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
Watson Montgomery Crosby		 03 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  3 Aug 2023 15:11 (but data presented dynamically)

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