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♂ Jacob M. Froese
aliasJake Froese
Record
21299 · 3766

Mennonite   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 0 1 1
Manitoba 4 3 7
Total 4 4 8
Birth 28 November 1917 → 106 years + 4 months ago
Lived 85 years + 6 months
First mandate 26 November 1959 → 64 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 41 years + 11 months
Death 14 June 2003 → 20 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 29 years + 11 months after 27 June 1973
Special notes
None
 
Jacob (Jake) M. Froese (1917–2003)
© Photo Legislative Library, Manitoba via the Manitoba Historical Society — Fair trade
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
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Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve ✗
Mun./Co. Council ✗
School Board ✓
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Manitoba 13 6 28 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. MB 26–31
SC
 1 Party leader 42–60 01 Dec 1959 — 31 Dec 1977 18 0 30

Electoral history

Races 8  
Path points 8  
6 documented challengers
⊖ P. Arnold Brown  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ W. Sterritt Forrester  m 
⊕ Jack B. Murta  m 
 		 ⊖ Ralph W. Eisbrenner  m 
⊖ Henry D. Hildebrand  m 
⊖ Abram J. Thiessen  m 
 
Eligible: 5,914 Votes: 3,584 Participation: 60.60% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
26		 Manitoba
26 November 1959
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37750(F) — 20 Mar 2022 21:57 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
41
SC
 1/3 1,300 36.27% +91 Loser:
PC
 1,209 33.73% Leo A. Recksiedler

Service: 3 years 17 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 5,833 Votes: 3,807 Participation: 65.27% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
27		 Manitoba
14 December 1962
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 37786(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
45
SC
 1/3 1,511 39.97% +33 Loser:
PC
 1,478 39.10% Abram J. Thiessen

Service: 3 years 6 months 8 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,100 Votes: 3,724 Participation: 61.05% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
28		 Manitoba
23 June 1966
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 13851(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:24 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
48
SC
 1/3 1,676 45.35% +352 Loser:
PC
 1,324 35.82% Bruce W. Gunn

Service: 3 years 1 day (Oppo.)
Eligible: 8,215 Votes: 4,815 Participation: 58.61% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 Manitoba
25 June 1969
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Minority
ID: 13908(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
51
SC
 1/4 1,981 41.30% +128 Loser:
PC
 1,853 38.63% Henry D. Hildebrand

Service: 4 years 2 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 8,938 Votes: 6,146 Participation: 68.76% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
30		 Manitoba
28 June 1973
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9210(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent → (Party leader)
Age
55
SC
 2/5 1,587 25.92% -1,316 Winner:
PC
 2,903 47.42% P. Arnold Brown
Eligible: 35,145 Votes: 23,321 Participation: 66.36% Candidacies: 4
Federal
30		 Manitoba
8 July 1974
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 10437(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:29 ET
✗
 Failed to enter Parliament
Age
56
SC
 4/4 1,164 4.99% -15,301 Winner:
PC
 16,465 70.60% Jack B. Murta
Eligible: 10,217 Votes: 6,380 Participation: 62.44% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
31		 Manitoba
11 October 1977
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 9267(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
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 Failed comeback to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
59
SC
 4/4 813 12.77% -2,797 Winner:
PC
 3,610 56.70% P. Arnold Brown
Eligible: 11,145 Votes: 5,665 Participation: 50.83% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
32		 Manitoba
17 November 1981
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  NDP  Majority
ID: 9324(F) — 28 Jul 2021 15:25 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
63
P
 3/3 349 6.18% -3,767 Winner:
PC
 4,116 72.90% P. Arnold Brown

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Manitoba: MLA Biographies - Deceased
Froese, Jacob M.		 20 Apr 2024
FR Assemblée législative du Manitoba: Notes biographiques des députés décédés
Froese, Jacob M.		 20 Apr 2024
EN Manitoba Historical Society, Memorable Manitobans
Jacob M. "Jake" Froese (1917-2003)		 20 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Jacob Froese		 20 Apr 2024

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