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♂ James Paton
aliasJames Paton
Record
48344 · 5489

Methodist   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 25%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 1 3 4
Birth 5 June 1853 → 170 years + 10 months ago
Lived 82 years + 3 months
First mandate 15 September 1915 → 108 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 62 years + 3 months
Death 16 September 1935 → 88 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 1 month after 23 July 1919
Special notes
None
 

James Paton (1853–1935)
No photo available
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
Prince Edward Island 3 10 7 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
4 documented challengers
⊖ C. Gavan Duffy  m 
⊖ George E. Hughes  m 
 		 ⊖ Edmund T. Higgs  m 
⊖ Benjamin Rogers  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 735 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
33		 Prince Edward Island
21 July 1897
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26592(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
44
CONS
 2/2 268 36.46% -199 Winner:
LIB
 467 63.54% Benjamin Rogers
Eligible: inc. Votes: 719 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
34		 Prince Edward Island
12 December 1900
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 17414(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
47
CONS
 2/2 276 38.39% -167 Winner:
LIB
 443 61.61% George E. Hughes
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,142 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
38		 Prince Edward Island
15 September 1915
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 25402(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
62
CONS
 1/2 1,130 52.75% +118 Loser:
LIB
 1,012 47.25% Edmund T. Higgs

Service: 3 years 10 months 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,327 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
39		 Prince Edward Island
24 July 1919
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25437(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
66
CONS
 2/2 585 44.08% -157 Winner:
LIB
 742 55.92% C. Gavan Duffy

Online biographical references (4)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Paton, James		 27 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
James Paton		 27 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
James Paton (Prince Edward Island politician)		 27 Dec 2023
FR Wikipédia
James Paton (homme politique)		 27 Dec 2023

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