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♂ Lemuel Harris
aliasLemuel Harris
Record
26179 · 3760

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Manitoba 3 0 3
Birth 15 December 1907 → 116 years + 4 months ago
Lived 88 years + 7 months
First mandate 14 May 1959 → 64 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 51 years + 4 months
Death 24 July 1996 → 27 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 27 years + 1 month after 24 June 1969
Special notes
None
 
Lemuel Harris (1907–1996)
© Photo Legislative Library, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Public domain
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 1 9 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Albert E. Bennett  m 
 		 ⊖ John M. Kozoriz  m 
 
Eligible: 11,389 Votes: 4,943 Participation: 43.40% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
14 May 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37717(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
51
CCF
 1/3 2,098 42.89% +177 Loser:
PC
 1,921 39.27% Albert E. Bennett

Service: 3 years 6 months 29 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,524 Votes: 3,642 Participation: 38.24% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37779(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
NDP
 1/3 1,462 40.68% +336 Loser:
PC
 1,126 31.33% Uberta Blackburn

Service: 3 years 6 months 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 9,232 Votes: 4,708 Participation: 51.00% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13843(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
58
NDP
 1/3 1,975 42.46% +318 Loser:
PC
 1,657 35.63% Wally Fox-Decent

Service: 3 years 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: 8,877 Votes: 4,606 Participation: 51.89% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13900(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
61		 Successor:
NDP
 3,029 66.15% William W. Jenkins

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Harris, Lemuel		 17 Feb 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Harris, Lemuel		 17 Feb 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Lemuel Harris (1907-1996)		 17 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Lemuel Harris		 17 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 17 Feb 2024 17:24 (but data presented dynamically)

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