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♂ Forrest W. Phillips
aliasForrest W. Phillips
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 4 0 4
Birth 1 July 1887 → 136 years + 10 months ago
Lived 85 years
First mandate 17 September 1946 → 77 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 59 years + 2 months
Death 8 July 1972 → 51 years + 9 months ago
Exit → Death 12 years + 10 months after 31 August 1959
Special notes
None
 
Forrest W. Phillips (1887–1972) 200x252
© Photo UPEI Island Archives — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Joshua G. MacArthur (1911–1980) Son-in-law
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Prince Edward Island 12 11 10 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. PE 46–47
LIB
 1 Speaker 61–67 15 Jan 1949 — 24 May 1955 6 4 9

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Ernest H. Strong  m 
 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,148 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
45		 Prince Edward Island
17 September 1946
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25651(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
59
LIB
 1/2 1,183 55.07% +218 Loser:
PC
 965 44.93% Allie McNeill

Service: 1 year 2 months 23 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,142 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Provincial
46		 Prince Edward Island
11 December 1947
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25666(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
LIB
 1/3 1,052 49.11% +235 Loser:
PC
 817 38.14% J. Foster Sharpe

Service: 3 years 4 months 14 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,885 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
47		 Prince Edward Island
26 April 1951
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25701(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
63
LIB
 1/2 970 51.46% +55 Loser:
PC
 915 48.54% Peter M. McCaull

Service: 4 years 28 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,109 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
48		 Prince Edward Island
25 May 1955
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 25733(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
67
LIB
 1/2 1,071 50.78% +33 Loser:
PC
 1,038 49.22% Ernest H. Strong

Service: 4 years 3 months 6 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,150 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
49		 Prince Edward Island
1 September 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  PC  Majority
ID: 25764(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
72		 Successor:
PC
 1,133 52.70% Robert A. Grindlay

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Phillips, Forrest William		 26 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Forrest William Phillips		 26 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
Forrest Phillips		 26 Dec 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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