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♂ John B. Dickie
aliasJohn B. Dickie
Record
16032 · 4886

Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Nova Scotia 1 0 1
Birth 30 March 1829 → 195 years ago
Lived 57 years + 2 months
First mandate 17 December 1874 → 149 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age 45 years + 8 months
Death 5 June 1886 → 137 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 7 years + 8 months after 16 September 1878
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 8 29 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NS 26
LIB
 1 Speaker 45–46 11 Mar 1875 — 01 May 1875 0 1 20

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Thomas F. Morrison  m 
 		 ⊖ William A. Patterson  m 
 
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
45
LIB
 2/4 1,687 60.49% +561 Loser:
LIB
 1,126 40.37% Robert Putnam

Service: 3 years 8 months 30 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 6,441 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
27		 Nova Scotia
17 September 1878
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 17806(F) — 12 Jan 2023 21:03 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
49		 Successor:
LC
 1,846 57.31% William A. Patterson

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia 1758-1983: a biographical directory
Dickie, John Barnhill (p. 55)		 05 Aug 2023
EN Wikipedia
John Barnhill Dickie		 05 Aug 2023

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