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♂ Orton I. Grain
aliasOrton I. Grain
Record
24075 · 14302

Anglican   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 1 4
Birth 9 August 1863 → 160 years + 8 months ago
Lived 66 years + 5 months
First mandate 7 December 1899 → 124 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age 36 years + 3 months
Death 2 February 1930 → 94 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 2 months after 10 November 1913
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 10 3 14 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Albert R. Bredin  m 
 		 ⊖ Martin J. O'Donohoe  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 2,185 Votes: 1,383 Participation: 63.30% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
10		 Manitoba
7 December 1899
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36701(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
36
CONS
 1/2 830 60.01% +277 Loser:
LIB
 553 39.99% D.F. Reid

Service: 3 years 7 months 12 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 1,729 Votes: 1,431 Participation: 82.76% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 Manitoba
20 July 1903
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36857(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
39
CONS
 2/2 713 49.83% -5 Winner:
LIB
 718 50.17% Martin J. O'Donohoe
Eligible: 2,038 Votes: 1,543 Participation: 75.71% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Manitoba
7 March 1907
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36907(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
43
CONS
 1/2 792 51.33% +41 Loser:
LIB
 751 48.67% Martin J. O'Donohoe

Service: 3 years 4 months 3 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,888 Votes: 2,174 Participation: 75.28% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36956(F) — 19 Mar 2022 23:12 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
CONS
 1/2 1,131 52.02% +88 Loser:
LIB
 1,043 47.98% Albert R. Bredin
After his election:
10 Nov 1913 50
CONS
 →
Vac.
 Left provincial politics
Service: 3 years 3 months 30 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 2,888 Votes: 2,220 Participation: 76.87% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
29 November 1913
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36987(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
CONS
 1,319 59.41% Walter H. Montague

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Grain, Orton Irvin M.D.		 09 Aug 2023
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Grain, Orton Irvin (Dr.)		 09 Aug 2023
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Orton Irwin Grain (1863-1930)		 09 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
Orton Grain		 09 Aug 2023

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