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♂ George W. Prout
aliasGeorge W. Prout
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 25%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 3 4
Birth 5 June 1878 → 145 years + 10 months ago
Lived ± 101 years
First mandate 6 August 1915 → 108 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 37 years + 2 months
Death c. 1980 → 44 years ago
Exit → Death ± 59 years + 6 months after 28 June 1920
Special notes
None
 
George W. Prout (1878–c.1980)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Prout's mother was identified in the 1911 Canadian census as being of "Negro" ancestry, which could make him the first Black MLA in Manitoba history, but it has never been officially recorded as such.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 4 10 22 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
30 documented challengers
⊖ George Armstrong  m 
⊖ Duncan Cameron  m 
⊖ Harriet S. Dick  f 
⊖ Edward B. Fisher  m 
⊖ John T. Haig  m 
⊖ William Ivens  m 
⊖ Richard J. Johns  m 
⊖ Frederick W. Law  m 
⊖ James Lightfoot  m 
⊖ Henry L. Mabb  m 
⊖ William C. Morden  m 
⊖ William A. Pritchard  m 
⊖ Edith F. Rogers  f 
⊖ John Stovel  m 
⊖ William J. Tupper  m 
 		 ⊖ Nicolas V. Bachynsky  m 
⊖ William J. Christie  m 
⊖ Frederick J. Dixon  m 
⊖ Charles H. Forrester  m 
⊖ Thomas G. Hamilton  m 
⊖ Robert Jacob  m 
⊖ Thomas H. Johnson  m 
⊖ George H. Lawrence  m 
⊖ Robert N. Lowery  m 
⊖ Walter H. Montague  m 
⊖ William L. Parrish  m 
⊖ John Queen  m 
⊖ Robert B. Russell  m 
⊖ Frederick G. Tipping  m 
⊖ Leoni S. Warde  m 
 
Eligible: 2,608 Votes: 2,173 Participation: 83.32% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
14		 Manitoba
10 July 1914
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 37004(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
36
LIB
 2/2 1,086 49.98% -1 Winner:
CONS
 1,087 50.02% Walter H. Montague
Eligible: 2,529 Votes: 2,049 Participation: 81.02% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
15		 Manitoba
6 August 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 37058(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
37
LIB
 1/2 1,295 63.20% +541 Loser:
CONS
 754 36.80% Richard Sanders

Service: 4 years 10 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 62,255 Votes: 47,427 Participation: 76.18% Candidacies: 41
Provincial
16		 Manitoba
29 June 1920
General
Single trans. vote (10)
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 37184(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
42
IND
 31/41 219 0.46% -1,281 Winner:
CONS
 1,500 3.16% William J. Tupper
Eligible: 2,132 Votes: 1,255 Participation: 58.86% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37299(F) — 20 Mar 2022 17:55 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
49
LIB
 3/4 179 14.26% -575 Winner:
PROG
 754 60.08% Nicolas V. Bachynsky

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Prout, George Waldron		 31 Jan 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Prout, George Waldron		 31 Jan 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
George Waldron Prout (1878-c1980)		 31 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
George Prout		 31 Jan 2024

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