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♂ Benjamin Rogers
aliasBenjamin Rogers
Record
53516 · 6395

Methodist   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Prince Edward Island 2 0 2
Birth 1 September 1836 → 187 years + 8 months ago
Lived 74 years + 4 months
First mandate 13 December 1893 → 130 years + 4 months ago
↳ at age 57 years + 3 months
Death 21 January 1911 → 113 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 10 years + 1 month after 11 December 1900
Special notes
None
 

Benjamin Rogers (1836–1911)
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Family tie with other documented individual
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Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Prince Edward Island 6 11 26 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Lemuel C. Owen  m 
 		 ⊖ James Paton  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 742 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
32		 Prince Edward Island
13 December 1893
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 26562(F) — 20 Jul 2021 22:04 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
57
LIB
 1/2 469 63.21% +196 Loser:
CONS
 273 36.79% Lemuel C. Owen

Service: 3 years 7 months 7 days (Gov't)
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
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
60
LIB
 1/2 467 63.54% +199 Loser:
CONS
 268 36.46% James Paton

Service: 3 years 4 months 20 days (Gov't)
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
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
64		 Successor:
LIB
 443 61.61% George E. Hughes

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Minding the House : a biographical guide to Prince Edward Island MLAs, 1873-1993 (Blair Weeks [Ed.])
Rogers, Benjamin		 26 Dec 2023
EN UPEI Island Archives, Islandora Repository, Biographies of Members of the Legislative Assembly
Benjamin Rogers		 26 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
Benjamin Rogers (politician, born 1836)		 26 Dec 2023

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 26 Dec 2023 15:16 (but data presented dynamically)

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