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♂ Morris A. Gray
aliasMorris A. Gray
Record
24283 · 14173

Russian-Canadian    Judaism   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 7 0 7
Birth 16 May 1887 → 136 years + 11 months ago
Lived 78 years + 7 months
First mandate 22 April 1941 → 83 years + 5 days ago
↳ at age 53 years + 11 months
Death 12 January 1966 → 58 years + 3 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
Morris A. Gray (1887–1966)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — 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 24 8 15 Z

Electoral history

Races 7  
Path points 8  
38 documented challengers
⊖ Paul Bardal  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Ernest A. Brotman  m 
⊖ James Cowan  m 
⊖ John K. Downes  m 
⊖ Seymour J. Farmer  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Madeline E. Hryniewiecki  f 
⊖ William A. Kardash  m  (4 runoffs)
⊖ Stanley H. Knowles  m 
⊖ John M. Kozoriz  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Morley S. Lougheed  m 
⊖ Asta A. Oddson  f 
⊖ Laurier A. Régnier  m 
⊖ John Shanski  m 
⊖ James Simpkin  m 
⊖ Lewis St. George Stubbs  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Donovan Swailes  m 
⊖ Gunnar S. Thorvaldson  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Alexander Turk  m 
⊖ Mary A. Wawrykow  f  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ James A. Barry  m 
⊖ Frank L. Chester  m 
⊖ Harriet S. Dick  f 
⊖ Harrison Dysart  m 
⊖ John M. Hawryluk  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ William Ivens  m 
⊖ Huntly D.B. Ketchen  m 
⊖ John A. Kolt  m 
⊖ Stephen N. Krawchyk  m 
⊖ John S. McDiarmid  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John Queen  m 
⊖ William Scraba  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Abraham L. (Abe) Simkin  m 
⊖ Charles R. Smith  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Lloyd C. Stinson  m 
⊖ Peter S. Taraska  m 
⊖ William V. Tobias  m 
⊖ Frederick E. Warriner  m 
⊖ Joseph Zuken  m 
 
Eligible: 137,437 Votes: 59,715 Participation: 43.45% Candidacies: 27
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
22 April 1941
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37477(F) — 24 Sep 2023 10:44 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
53
CCF
 10/27 3,086 5.26% +916 Loser:
CCF
 2,170 3.70% John Queen
After his election:
2 Feb 1943 55
CCF
 →
CCF
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 4 years 5 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 155,824 Votes: 79,433 Participation: 50.98% Candidacies: 20
Provincial
22		 Manitoba
15 October 1945
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37528(F) — 4 Feb 2023 13:19 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
CCF
 7/20 4,075 5.13% +1,063 Loser:
PC
 3,012 3.79% Mark J. Long

Service: 4 years 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 46,649 Votes: 24,909 Participation: 53.40% Candidacies: 12
Provincial
23		 Manitoba
10 November 1949
General
Single trans. vote (4)
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37533(F) — 9 Oct 2023 19:50 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
62
CCF
 1/12 6,718 27.33% +4,914 Loser:
LIBP
 1,804 7.34% John M. Kozoriz

Service: 3 years 6 months 28 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 44,887 Votes: 22,116 Participation: 49.27% Candidacies: 11
Provincial
24		 Manitoba
8 June 1953
General
Single trans. vote (4)
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37627(F) — 23 Mar 2022 13:19 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
66
CCF
 1/11 4,642 21.48% +2,847 Loser:
PC
 1,795 8.31% Stanley Carrick

Service: 5 years 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 11,905 Votes: 6,233 Participation: 52.36% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
25		 Manitoba
16 June 1958
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Minority
ID: 37655(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
71
CCF
 1/3 3,083 49.86% +1,499 Loser:
PC
 1,584 25.62% Peter Okrainec

Service: 10 months 27 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,271 Votes: 7,326 Participation: 59.70% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37712(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
71
CCF
 1/4 3,635 50.56% +1,529 Loser:
PC
 2,106 29.29% Mary A. Wawrykow

Service: 3 years 6 months 29 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,351 Votes: 6,331 Participation: 51.26% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37774(F) — 20 Mar 2022 22:02 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
75
NDP
 1/3 2,658 42.62% +577 Loser:
LIB
 2,081 33.37% John Shanski
After his election:
12 Jan 1966 78
NDP
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 3 years 29 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 12,758 Votes: 7,306 Participation: 57.27% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13838(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
78		 Successor:
NDP
 3,644 50.43% Sidney Green

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Gray, Morris A.		 17 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Gray, Morris A.		 17 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Morris Abraham Gray (1887-1966)		 17 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Morris Gray		 17 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 17 Feb 2024 17:32 (but data presented dynamically)

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