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♂ Henry Nathan
aliasHenry Nathan
Record
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☆   Judaism   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 2 0 2
Birth 3 September 1842 → 181 years + 7 months ago
Lived 71 years + 5 months
First mandate 24 November 1871 → 152 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 29 years + 2 months
Death 5 February 1914 → 110 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 40 years + 15 days after 21 January 1874
Special notes
None
 
Henry Nathan (1842–1914)
© Photo — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
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Liberal MP for Victoria (British Columbia) from 1871 to 1874, Nathan was the first Jewish Canadian to be elected to the House of Commons. The second one only came 43 years later when the Montreal Liberal Samuel Jacobs was elected in George-Étienne Cartier in 1917. Although a Liberal, he supported the Conservative gov­ern­ment of John A., which strained his relationship with his Victoria co-MP, Amor De Cosmos, whom he called "Cupid" in his private letters. He returned to England, where he was born, in 1876.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 2 1 27

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Robert Beaven  m 
 		 ⊖ Amor De Cosmos  m 
 
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacies: 2
Federal
1		 British Columbia
24 November 1871
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 18474(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:27 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
29
LIB
 2/2 By acclamation

Service: 7 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 894 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Federal
2		 British Columbia
20 July 1872
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Minority
 LIB  5 Nov 1873
ID: 18667(F) — 25 Jun 2023 12:00 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
29
LIB
 1/3 402 89.93% +308 Loser:
IND
 94 21.03% Robert Beaven
After his election:
5 Nov 1873 31
CONS
 →
LIB
 Change of government (became part of government)
Service: 1 year 6 months 1 day (Oppo. & Gov't)
Eligible: 959 Votes: 1,008 Participation: 52.55% Candidacies: 4
Federal
3		 British Columbia
22 January 1874
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 18705(F) — 21 Oct 2023 18:34 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
31		 Successor:
ILIB
 304 60.32% Francis J. Roscoe

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Henry Nathan, M.P.		 26 Jan 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Henry Nathan, député		 26 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
Henry Nathan Jr.		 26 Jan 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 26 Jan 2024 22:18 (but data presented dynamically)

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