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♂ Peter McLaren
aliasPeter McLaren
Record
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Baptist   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 1 1 2
Birth c. 1841 → 183 years ago
Lived ± 67 years
First mandate 8 May 1882 → 141 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age ± 41 years
Death c. 1908 → 116 years ago
Exit → Death ± 21 years + 7 months after 29 May 1886
Special notes
None
 

Peter McLaren (c.1841–c.1908)
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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 4 0 21 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
3 documented challengers
⊖ Hugh L. MacDonald  m 
⊖ Cyrus Shaw  m 
 		 ⊖ John McDougall  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,980 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
29		 Prince Edward Island
8 May 1882
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26490(F) — 6 Jan 2023 15:47 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
±41
CONS
 2/4 512 51.72% +23 Loser:
CONS
 489 49.39% George Owen

Service: 4 years 21 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,386 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Prince Edward Island
30 May 1886
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26505(F) — 5 Jan 2023 18:18 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
±45
LIB
 3/4 523 43.84% -168 Winner:
LC
 691 57.92% Cyrus Shaw

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
McLaren, M. D., L.R.C.S., LRC.P., Peter		 27 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Peter McLaren		 27 Dec 2023

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