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♂ James Clinkskill
aliasJames Clinkskill
Record
11596 · 8805

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
North-Western Territories 4 0 4
Birth 9 May 1853 → 170 years + 11 months ago
Lived 83 years + 2 months
First mandate 30 June 1888 → 135 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 35 years + 1 month
Death 6 August 1936 → 87 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 30 years + 11 months after 31 August 1905
Special notes
None
 
James Clinkskill (1853–1936)
© Photo — Public domain
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
North-Western Territories 13 0 23 Z

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 6  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Benjamin Chubb  m 
 		 ⊖ Joseph Benjamin Prince  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 336 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
1		 North-Western Territories
30 June 1888
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30476(F) — 21 Jan 2023 11:50 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
35
IND
 1/2 180 53.57% +24 Loser:
IND
 156 46.43% Daniel L. Clink

Service: 3 years 4 months 7 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 302 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
2		 North-Western Territories
7 November 1891
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30490(F) — 21 Jan 2023 11:03 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
38
IND
 1/2 168 55.63% +34 Loser:
IND
 134 44.37% James M. Skelton

Service: 2 years 11 months 23 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 328 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
3		 North-Western Territories
31 October 1894
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LICO  Minority
ID: 30517(F) — 20 Jan 2023 21:30 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
41
IND
 1/2 173 52.74% +18 Loser:
IND
 155 47.26% Joseph Benjamin Prince

Service: 4 years 3 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 316 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
4		 North-Western Territories
4 November 1898
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LICO  Minority
ID: 30547(F) — 19 Jan 2023 22:56 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
45		 Successor:
IND
 185 58.54% Joseph Benjamin Prince
Eligible: inc. Votes: 376 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
5		 North-Western Territories
9 December 1902
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LICO  Majority
ID: 30618(F) — 26 Mar 2024 21:41 ET
✓
 → Returned to this legislature after hiatus
Age
49
LICO
 1/2 195 51.86% +14 Loser:
LIB
 181 48.14% Benjamin Chubb

Service: 2 years 8 months 22 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,760 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
1		 Saskatchewan
13 December 1905
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 30637(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
52		 Successor:
LIB
 957 54.38% William C. Sutherland

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN City of Saskatoon, A Seat on Council: The Alderman, Councillors and Mayors of Saskatoon, 1903-2006
Clinkskill, James (p. 25)		 26 Mar 2024
EN Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, SELD: North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905
(pp. 9-11, 13, 15, 22, 33)		 26 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
James Clinkskill		 26 Mar 2024

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