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♂ Cyrus Macmillan
aliasCyrus Macmillan
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 1 2 3
Birth 12 September 1882 → 141 years + 7 months ago
Lived 70 years + 9 months
First mandate 26 March 1940 → 84 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 57 years + 6 months
Death 29 June 1953 → 70 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 8 years + 19 days after 10 June 1945
Special notes
None
 
Cyrus Macmillan (1882–1953)
© Photo 1940 House of Commons (Canada) — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
MacMillan completed his doctoral thesis in the English Department at Harvard University. Finished in 1909 and titled The Folk Songs of Canada, it comprised four volumes in English and French and more than a thousand pages of text, both in type and, in the case of many of the song lyrics, handwritten. It was the first doctoral thesis approved at Harvard that was not confined to American literature.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 5 2 14

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 16
LIB
 1 Minister 47 17 Jun 1930 — 06 Aug 1930 0 1 20
 1. Fisheries

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
5 documented challengers
⊖ James L. Douglas  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ J. Angus MacLean  m 
⊖ John H. Myers  m 
 		 ⊖ Robert H. Jenkins  m 
⊖ W. Chester S. McLure  m  (3 runoffs)
 
Eligible: 20,382 Votes: 35,737 Participation: 87.67% Candidacies: 4
Federal
17		 Prince Edward Island
28 July 1930
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LC  Majority
ID: 22468(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to Parliament
Age
47
LIB
 4/4 8,482 47.47% -696 Winner:
LC
 9,178 51.36% John H. Myers
Eligible: 24,397 Votes: 39,102 Participation: 80.14% Candidacies: 4
Federal
19		 Prince Edward Island
26 March 1940
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 23016(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
57
LIB
 1/4 10,511 53.76% +1,305 Loser:
NATG
 9,206 47.09% John O. Hyndman

Service: 5 years 2 months 15 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 24,540 Votes: 38,618 Participation: 78.68% Candidacies: 6
Federal
20		 Prince Edward Island
11 June 1945
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 23276(F) — 20 Sep 2021 17:24 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
62
LIB
 4/6 9,125 47.26% -128 Winner:
PC
 9,253 47.92% W. Chester S. McLure

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. Cyrus Macmillan, P.C., M.P.		 11 Feb 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. Cyrus Macmillan, C.P., député		 11 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Cyrus Macmillan		 11 Feb 2024
FR Wikipédia
Cyrus Macmillan		 11 Feb 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 11 Feb 2024 22:10 (but data presented dynamically)

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