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♂ James Murdock
aliasJames Murdock
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 25%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 1 3 4
Birth 15 August 1871 → 152 years + 8 months ago
Lived 77 years + 9 months
First mandate 19 January 1922 → 102 years + 3 months ago
↳ at age 50 years + 5 months
Death 15 May 1949 → 74 years + 11 months ago
Exit → Death 23 years + 6 months after 28 October 1925
Special notes
None
 
James Murdock (1871–1949)
© Photo — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Murdock failed to enter Parliament in Toronto South in 1921, so Archibald McCoig agreed to cede his safe Liberal seat of Kent to him in exchange of being called to the Senate. Murdock won the seat by acclamation. Then, in 1923, while Minister of Labour, he used information obtained as a member of the Cabinet and withdrew funds from the Home Bank of Canada a day or two before it collapsed. Outraged, Edward Porter, the Conservative MP for Hastings West since 1902, resigned in protest to force a by-election in his riding on this matter, but lost. Murdock's comeuppance only came when he spectacularly failed to get re-elected in Toronto—High Park in the 1925 and 1926 general elections, meaning that he has never really been elected.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 3 9 8

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. CA 14
LIB
 1 Minister 50–54 29 Dec 1921 — 12 Nov 1925 3 10 14
 1. Labour

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 4  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Alexander J. Anderson  m  (2 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Charles Sheard  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 7,531 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Federal
14		 Ontario
6 December 1921
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 21656(F) — 5 Jul 2023 18:18 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to Parliament
Age
50
LIB
 2/2 3,475 46.14% -581 Winner:
NLCP
 4,056 53.86% Charles Sheard
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Federal
14		 Ontario
19 January 1922
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 21759(F) — 11 Oct 2022 20:38 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
50
LIB
 1/1 By acclamation

Service: 3 years 9 months 9 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 34,870 Votes: 21,274 Participation: 61.01% Candidacies: 2
Federal
15		 Ontario
29 October 1925
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 21903(F) — 27 Jun 2023 19:55 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
54
LIB
 2/2 5,465 25.69% -10,344 Winner:
LC
 15,809 74.31% Alexander J. Anderson
Eligible: 34,870 Votes: 16,533 Participation: 47.41% Candidacies: 2
Federal
16		 Ontario
14 September 1926
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 22180(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to Parliament
Age
55
LIB
 2/2 4,167 25.20% -8,199 Winner:
LC
 12,366 74.80% Alexander J. Anderson

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. James Murdock, P.C., M.P., Senator		 26 Jan 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. James Murdock, C.P., député, sénateur		 26 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
James Murdock (politician)		 26 Jan 2024
FR Wikipédia
James Murdock (homme politique)		 26 Jan 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 26 Jan 2024 22:59 (but data presented dynamically)

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