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♂ Hiram Blanchard
aliasHiram Blanchard
Record
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☆   Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 2 1 3
Birth 17 January 1820 → 204 years + 3 months ago
Lived 54 years + 11 months
First mandate 18 September 1867 → 156 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 47 years + 8 months
Death 17 December 1874 → 149 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 1 day after 16 December 1874
Special notes
None
 
Hiram Blanchard (1820–1874)
© Photo 1867 Jdexter — licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
First Nova Scotia premier of the Confederation era (for two months in 1867) and Conservative opposition leader until 1874, Blanchard died the day of the 1874 election in which he was not running.
 

Length of Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Nova Scotia 4 6 21 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NS 23
CONF
 1 Premier 47 04 Jul 1867 — 17 Sep 1867 0 2 13
2. NS 24
CONF
 1 Party leader 47–54 04 Jul 1867 — 14 Nov 1874 7 4 10
3. NS 24–25
CONF
 1 Opposition Leader 47–54 18 Sep 1867 — 14 Nov 1874 7 1 27

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Alexander Campbell  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Samuel McDonnell  m 
 		 ⊖ Hugh MacDonald  m  (2 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 3,468 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
24		 Nova Scotia
18 September 1867
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  ANTI  Majority
ID: 17486(F) — 4 Feb 2022 07:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
47
CONF
 2/4 986 56.86% +54 Loser:
ANTI
 932 53.75% H. McInnis
After his election:
7 Sep 1868 48
CONF
 →
Vac.
 Election cancelled/Unseated
Service: 11 months 20 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,644 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
24		 Nova Scotia
22 October 1868
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  ANTI  Majority
ID: 17495(F) — 19 Sep 2021 16:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent → (Party leader)
Age
48
CONF
 2/2 1,320 49.92% -4 Winner:
ANTI
 1,324 50.08% Hugh MacDonald
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,300 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
25		 Nova Scotia
16 May 1871
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17507(F) — 17 Nov 2023 13:24 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus (Party leader)
Age
51
LC
 1/4 1,427 53.85% +147 Loser:
LIB
 1,280 48.30% Alexander Campbell

Service: 3 years 7 months (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,441 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
26		 Nova Scotia
17 December 1874
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17789(F) — 6 Feb 2022 14:13 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
54		 Successor:
LIB
 1,390 51.08% John MacKinnon

Online biographical references (5)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Canadian Encyclopedia
Hiram Blanchard		 03 Dec 2023
FR Encyclopédie canadienne
Blanchard, Hiram		 03 Dec 2023
EN Dictionary of Canadian Biography
Blanchard, Hiram		 03 Dec 2023
FR Dictionnaire biographique du Canada
Blanchard, Hiram		 03 Dec 2023
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Blanchard, Hiram (p. 17)		 03 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
Hiram Blanchard		 03 Dec 2023
FR Wikipédia
Hiram Blanchard		 03 Dec 2023

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