Canada's electoral history from 1867 to today
Base → People → Search & Find → Full profile → E. Joseph Williams

♂ E. Joseph Williams
aliasE. Joseph Williams
Record
65361 · 14157

☆   Danish-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 0 1
Birth 28 January 1918 → 106 years + 2 months ago
Lived 103 years + 6 months
First mandate 16 June 1958 → 65 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 40 years + 4 months
Death 18 August 2021 → 2 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 62 years + 3 months after 13 May 1959
Special notes
None
 
E. Joseph Williams (1918–2021)
© Photo Legislative Library, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
A Progressive Conservative representing the Manitoba riding of Churchill from 1958 to 1959, Williams was the first MLA of Danish ancestry. Serving only one term, he died more than 60 years later, at the age of 103.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 0 10 26 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
Documented challenger
None
 
 
Eligible: 5,670 Votes: 3,237 Participation: 57.09% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37641(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
40
PC
 1/3 1,580 48.87% +297 Loser:
LIBP
 1,283 39.68% K. Don Wray

Service: 10 months 27 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,988 Votes: 2,953 Participation: 49.32% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
11 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37698(F) — 23 Mar 2022 20:29 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
41		 Successor:
PC
 1,587 54.48% John E. Ingebrigtson

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Williams, Edward Joseph		 06 Mar 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Williams, Edward Joseph		 06 Mar 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Edward Joseph "Joe" Williams (1918-2021)		 06 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
E.J. Williams		 06 Mar 2024

© 2019, 2024 :: PoliCan.ca (Maurice Y. Michaud)
Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  6 Mar 2024 22:54 (but data presented dynamically)

© 2019-2024 :: PoliCan.ca
Given that electoral results are by their very nature public information, such data that can be found in PoliCan are considered to be in the public domain. However, unless indicated otherwise, all other elements — the concept of consolidating these data into a single format, the detailed research on each election, legislature and candidate, the organization and searchability of the data, the programming allowing the entry and maintenance of the data, as well as the analyses and explanatory articles found in this website — are the intellectual property of Maurice Y. Michaud.