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♂ John J. Marshall
aliasJohn J. Marshall
Record
39548 · 4808

Irish-Canadian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 0 1
Birth c. October 1807 → 216 years + 6 months ago
Lived ± 63 years
First mandate 18 September 1867 → 156 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age ± 59 years
Death 25 October 1870 → 153 years + 6 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
Had only represented Guysborough County from 1840 to 1847 and 1850 to 1859.
 
John J. Marshall (c.1807–1870) 200x256
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Nova Scotia — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 3 1 6 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NS 24
ANTI
 1 Speaker 60–63 30 Jan 1868 — 25 Oct 1870 2 8 25

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ John A. Kirk  m 
 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,274 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
24		 Nova Scotia
18 September 1867
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  ANTI  Majority
ID: 17483(F) — 23 Dec 2023 10:13 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
±59
ANTI
 1/4 730 64.20% +287 Loser:
CONF
 443 38.96% J.A. Tory
After his election:
25 Oct 1870 ±63
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 3 years 1 month 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,789 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Provincial
24		 Nova Scotia
13 December 1870
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17497(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:12 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
±63		 Successor:
LIB
 875 48.91% William H. Wylde

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Hon. John Joseph Marshall		 23 Dec 2023
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Marshall, John Joseph (p. 152)		 23 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
John Joseph Marshall		 23 Dec 2023

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