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♂ Joseph Benjamin Prince
aliasJoseph Benjamin Prince
Record
50798 · 8806

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
North-Western Territories 2 1 3
Birth 29 April 1855 → 169 years ago
Lived 65 years + 5 months
First mandate 4 November 1898 → 125 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 43 years + 6 months
Death 26 October 1920 → 103 years + 6 months ago
Exit → Death 15 years + 1 month after 31 August 1905
Special notes
None
 
Joseph Benjamin Prince (1855–1920) 200x221
© Photo 1911 William James Topley — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Paul Prince (1897–1949) Son  
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
North-Western Territories 6 9 24 Z

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
1 documented challenger
⊖ James Clinkskill  m 
 
 
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
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
39
IND
 2/2 155 47.26% -18 Winner:
IND
 173 52.74% James Clinkskill
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
43
IND
 1/2 185 58.54% +54 Loser:
IND
 131 41.46% James M. Skelton

Service: 3 years 6 months 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 406 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
5		 North-Western Territories
21 May 1902
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LICO  Majority
ID: 30579(F) — 21 Jul 2021 17:10 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
47
LICO
 1/2 210 51.72% +14 Loser:
LIB
 196 48.28% Albert E. Dunn

Service: 3 years 3 months 10 days (Gov't)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 1,202 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
1		 Saskatchewan
13 December 1905
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 30620(F) — 25 Jul 2021 11:15 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
50		 Successor:
LIB
 914 76.04% Albert Champagne

Online biographical references (3)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
The Hon. Joseph Benjamin Prince, Senator		 28 Dec 2023
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
L'hon. Joseph Benjamin Prince, sénateur		 28 Dec 2023
EN Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, SELD: North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905
(pp. 12-13, 19, 22)		 28 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
Joseph Benjamin Prince		 28 Dec 2023

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