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♂ Maurice D. MacCarthy
aliasMaurice D. MacCarthy
Record
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☆   Roman Catholic   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 6 0 6
Birth 11 May 1878 → 145 years + 11 months ago
Lived 75 years
First mandate 28 June 1927 → 96 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 49 years + 1 month
Death 7 June 1953 → 70 years + 10 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
Maurice D. MacCarthy (1878–1953)
© Photo Archives of Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
At age 75, MacCarthy died of a stroke on the eve of the 1953 Manitoba general election. The Liberal-Progressive was widely expected to win a seventh term. Two days after his death, the Winnipeg Free Press published this tribute: "The quiet-spoken member contributed little to the actual debates in the House, but no one would deny that he was most active on behalf of his constituency, and that in his own quiet, sincere and effective way he brought it benefits which a more vocal and less active member would have been unable to do."
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 25 11 5 Z

Electoral history

Races 6  
Path points 7  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Earlston S. Everall  m 
 		 ⊖ Joseph Hamelin  m 
 
Eligible: 4,122 Votes: 2,244 Participation: 54.44% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
18		 Manitoba
28 June 1927
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  PROG  Majority
ID: 37326(F) — 13 Aug 2022 14:17 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
49
PROG
 1/3 1,055 47.01% +224 Loser:
CONS
 831 37.03% Joseph Hamelin

Service: 4 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,289 Votes: 3,162 Participation: 73.72% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
19		 Manitoba
16 June 1932
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37376(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
LIBP
 1/2 1,959 61.95% +756 Loser:
CONS
 1,203 38.05% Robert Doucette

Service: 4 years 1 month 10 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,994 Votes: 3,379 Participation: 67.66% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
20		 Manitoba
27 July 1936
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Minority
ID: 37426(F) — 15 Sep 2022 13:11 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
LIBP
 1/3 1,503 44.97% +455 Loser:
CONS
 1,048 31.36% Earlston S. Everall
After his election:
17 Nov 1940 62
LIBP
 →
LIBP
 Changed allegiance ()
Service: 4 years 8 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,228 Votes: 3,075 Participation: 58.82% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
21		 Manitoba
22 April 1941
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37472(F) — 16 Sep 2022 19:32 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
62
LIBP
 1/2 1,624 53.26% +199 Loser:
ACSC
 1,425 46.74% Paul Prince

Service: 4 years 5 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,191 Votes: 2,770 Participation: 53.36% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
22		 Manitoba
15 October 1945
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37523(F) — 17 Sep 2022 16:03 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
67
LIBP
 1/2 1,907 69.85% +1,084 Loser:
CCF
 823 30.15% Jake Heesaker

Service: 4 years 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,953 Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
23		 Manitoba
10 November 1949
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  COAL  Majority
ID: 37571(F) — 6 Mar 2023 20:07 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
71
LIBP
 1/1 By acclamation
After his election:
19 Aug 1950 72
LIBP
 →
LIBP
 Changed allegiance ()
7 Jun 1953 75
LIBP
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 3 years 6 months 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,932 Votes: 3,419 Participation: 69.32% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
24		 Manitoba
6 July 1953
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  LIBP  Majority
ID: 37621(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
75		 Successor:
LIBP
 1,369 40.95% Gildas L. Molgat

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
MacCarthy, Maurice Dane		 08 Mar 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
MacCarthy, Maurice Dane		 08 Mar 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Maurice Dane MacCarthy (1878-1953)		 08 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Maurice Dane MacCarthy		 08 Mar 2024

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