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♂ Joseph Wise
aliasJoseph Wise
Record
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☆   Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 75%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 3 1 4
Birth 14 October 1834 → 189 years + 6 months ago
Lived 74 years + 4 months
First mandate 30 May 1886 → 137 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 51 years + 7 months
Death 21 February 1909 → 115 years + 2 months ago
Exit → Death 8 years + 9 months after 10 May 1900
Special notes
None
 

Joseph Wise (1834–1909)
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Family tie with other documented individual
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Well that's interesting!
Wise, a Prince Edward Island Liberal, defected to the opposition Conservatives in 1899, but the drama reached its climax in May 1900, when he was dragged out of the legislature by the Sergeant-at-Arms and locked in the Speaker’s room until the House adjourned. It's a story worth reading that also involves Henry Pineau, an MLA who only sat for just over a year and whose defection from the Conservatives to the Liberal saved the sitting government.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Prince Edward Island 10 0 25 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Donald Farquharson  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Donald McKay  m  (3 runoffs)
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 3,612 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
30		 Prince Edward Island
30 May 1886
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26514(F) — 6 Jan 2023 13:10 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
51
LIB
 2/4 953 52.77% +1 Loser:
LC
 952 52.71% Donald McKay

Service: 3 years 7 months 30 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 3,599 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
31		 Prince Edward Island
30 January 1890
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 26529(F) — 12 Jul 2023 16:45 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
55
LIB
 3/4 919 51.06% -4 Winner:
LC
 923 51.28% Donald McKay
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,589 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
32		 Prince Edward Island
13 December 1893
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26555(F) — 5 Jan 2023 09:36 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
59
LIB
 1/2 846 53.24% +103 Loser:
LC
 743 46.76% Donald McKay

Service: 3 years 7 months 7 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,623 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
33		 Prince Edward Island
21 July 1897
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26585(F) — 12 Nov 2022 06:48 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
62
LIB
 1/2 886 54.59% +149 Loser:
CONS
 737 45.41% Alexander Horne
After his election:
14 Apr 1899 64
LIB
 →
CONS
 Changed allegiance (joined opposition)
10 May 1900 65
CONS
 →
Vac.
 Amidst controversy
Service: 2 years 9 months 19 days (Gov't & Oppo.)
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
33		 Prince Edward Island
11 July 1900
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26643(F) — 13 Feb 2022 17:12 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
65		 Successor:
LIB
 Acclam. Albert H.E. Douglas

Online biographical references (3)

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

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