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♂ James T. Gordon
aliasJames T. Gordon
Record
23691 · 14291

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 1 4
Birth 24 December 1858 → 165 years + 4 months ago
Lived 60 years + 11 months
First mandate 24 January 1901 → 123 years + 3 months ago
↳ at age 42 years + 1 month
Death 21 December 1919 → 104 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 9 years + 5 months after 10 July 1910
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 9 5 12 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
3 documented challengers
⊖ John D. Cameron  m 
⊖ Thomas Greenway  m 
 		 ⊖ Benjamin E. Chaffey  m 
 
Eligible: 1,212 Votes: 1,073 Participation: 88.53% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
10		 Manitoba
7 December 1899
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36711(F) — 7 Oct 2021 12:40 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
40
CONS
 2/3 428 39.89% -128 Winner:
LIB
 556 51.82% Thomas Greenway
Eligible: 3,336 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
10		 Manitoba
24 January 1901
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36740(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
42
CONS
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 2 years 5 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,251 Votes: 3,440 Participation: 80.92% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
20 July 1903
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36885(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
44
CONS
 1/2 1,807 52.53% +174 Loser:
LIB
 1,633 47.47% John D. Cameron

Service: 3 years 7 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,823 Votes: 4,110 Participation: 85.22% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36930(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
CONS
 1/2 2,122 51.63% +134 Loser:
LIB
 1,988 48.37% Benjamin E. Chaffey

Service: 3 years 4 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,011 Votes: 5,041 Participation: 83.86% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36979(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
51		 Successor:
CONS
 2,545 50.49% Lendrum McMeans

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Gordon, James Thomas		 09 Aug 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Gordon, James Thomas		 09 Aug 2023
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
James Thomas Gordon (1858-1919)		 09 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
James Thomas Gordon		 09 Aug 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  9 Aug 2023 16:26 (but data presented dynamically)

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