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♂ Hugh J. McGavin
aliasHugh J. McGavin
Record
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☆   United Church   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 1 2 3
Birth 14 November 1874 → 149 years + 5 months ago
Lived 83 years + 3 months
First mandate 28 June 1927 → 96 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 52 years + 7 months
Death 8 March 1958 → 66 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 25 years + 8 months after 15 June 1932
Special notes
None
 
Hugh J. McGavin (1874–1958)
© Photo Brenda Miller via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
A Manitoba Conservative who served only one term, McGavin was a doctor whose motto is said to have been "Do all the good you can for as many people as you can for as long as you can." During his short tenure in the assembly, he won a debate on immunization for diphtheria by saying, "If you don't use antitoxin you might as well hit the children over the head and be done with it.”
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 4 11 18 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Cornelius W. Wiebe  m 
 		 ⊖ Valentine Winkler  m 
 
Eligible: 1,150 Votes: 907 Participation: 78.87% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
13		 Manitoba
11 July 1910
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 36968(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
35
CONS
 2/2 387 42.67% -133 Winner:
LIB
 520 57.33% Valentine Winkler
Eligible: 3,925 Votes: 2,609 Participation: 66.47% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37313(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
52
CONS
 1/3 1,016 38.94% -59 Loser:
PROG
 1,075 41.20% John H. Black

Service: 4 years 11 months 18 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 7,453 Votes: 5,227 Participation: 70.13% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37363(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
57
CONS
 2/2 2,390 45.72% -447 Winner:
LIBP
 2,837 54.28% Cornelius W. Wiebe

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
McGavin, Hugh		 02 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
McGavin, Hugh		 02 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Hugh McGavin (1874-1958)		 02 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Hugh McGavin		 02 Feb 2024

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