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♂ Samuel Rettie
aliasSamuel Rettie
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 2 3
Birth 23 January 1818 → 206 years + 3 months ago
Lived 64 years + 11 months
First mandate 16 May 1871 → 152 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 53 years + 3 months
Death 20 January 1883 → 141 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 8 years + 1 month after 16 December 1874
Special notes
None
 

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 7 1 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
4 documented challengers
⊖ William M. Blair  m 
⊖ Thomas F. Morrison  m 
 		 ⊖ Robert Chambers  m 
⊖ William A. Patterson  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,739 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
24		 Nova Scotia
18 September 1867
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  ANTI  Majority
ID: 17479(F) — 14 Sep 2021 21:53 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
49
CONF
 3/4 1,311 45.68% -314 Winner:
ANTI
 1,625 56.62% Robert Chambers
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacies: 2
Provincial
25		 Nova Scotia
16 May 1871
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17500(F) — 22 Jul 2021 21:12 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
53
LC
 2/2 By acclamation

Service: 3 years 7 months (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 5,577 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
26		 Nova Scotia
17 December 1874
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17782(F) — 6 Feb 2022 13:52 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
56		 Successor:
LIB
 1,687 60.49% John B. Dickie
Eligible: inc. Votes: 6,116 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 5
Provincial
28		 Nova Scotia
20 June 1882
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17827(F) — 14 Sep 2021 21:37 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
64
IND
 5/5 474 15.50% -1,023 Winner:
LC
 1,497 48.95% William A. Patterson

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Rettie, Samuel (p. 185)		 03 Sep 2023
EN Wikipedia
Samuel Rettie		 03 Sep 2023

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