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♂ Sir Herbert Brown Ames
aliasHerbert Ames
Record
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☆   Anglican   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 4 0 4
Birth 27 June 1863 → 160 years + 10 months ago
Lived 90 years + 9 months
First mandate 3 November 1904 → 119 years + 5 months ago
↳ at age 41 years + 4 months
Death 30 March 1954 → 70 years ago
Exit → Death 32 years + 3 months after 5 December 1921
Special notes
None
 
Sir Herbert Brown Ames (1863–1954)
© Photo — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Ames, a Conservative MP from Montreal, inherited the family shoe company and used much of his fortune to help the poor and fight corruption. An avid philanthropist, he funded a 39-unit apartment housing complex for the poor on William Street, called Diamond Court, which has since been demolished.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 17 0 28

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
1 documented challenger
⊖ William J. Hushion  m 
 
 
Eligible: 8,474 Votes: 6,223 Participation: 73.44% Candidacies: 2
Federal
10		 Québec
3 November 1904
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 20716(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 → New to Parliament
Age
41
CONS
 1/2 3,342 55.39% +650 Loser:
LIB
 2,692 44.61% R. Lyall

Service: 3 years 11 months 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 10,476 Votes: 6,378 Participation: 60.88% Candidacies: 2
Federal
11		 Québec
26 October 1908
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 20977(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
45
CONS
 1/2 3,538 56.94% +862 Loser:
LIB
 2,676 43.06% Robert C. Smith

Service: 2 years 10 months 25 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 7,345 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Federal
12		 Québec
21 September 1911
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  CONS  Majority
ID: 21205(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
48
CONS
 1/2 4,677 63.68% +2,009 Loser:
LIB
 2,668 36.32% Milton L. Hersey

Service: 6 years 2 months 25 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 8,212 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Federal
13		 Québec
17 December 1917
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UNIO  Majority
ID: 21463(F) — 23 Jan 2022 21:32 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
54
UNIO
 1/2 5,663 68.96% +3,114 Loser:
LL
 2,549 31.04% William J. Hushion

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 14,330 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Federal
14		 Québec
6 December 1921
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 21719(F) — 24 Jan 2022 08:04 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
58		 Successor:
LIB
 9,056 63.20% Walter G. Mitchell

Online biographical references (5)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
FR Non-standard link
Ville de Montréal, Mémoires des Montréalais, Herbert Brown Ames et la philanthropie à 5 %		 07 Apr 2024
EN Canadian Encyclopedia
Sir Herbert Brown Ames		 07 Apr 2024
FR Encyclopédie canadienne
Ames, sir Herbert Brown		 07 Apr 2024
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Sir Herbert Brown Ames, M.P.		 07 Apr 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Sir Herbert Brown Ames, député		 07 Apr 2024
EN Wikipedia
Herbert Ames		 07 Apr 2024
FR Wikipédia
Herbert Brown Ames		 07 Apr 2024

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