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♂ William Eakin
aliasWilliam Eakin
Record
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Presbyterian   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
North-Western Territories 2 1 3
Birth 14 June 1828 → 195 years + 10 months ago
Lived 89 years + 9 months
First mandate 31 October 1894 → 129 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 66 years + 4 months
Death 14 March 1918 → 106 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 15 years + 9 months after 20 May 1902
Special notes
None
 
William Eakin (1828–1918) 200x245
© Photo 1896 — 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 7 6 16 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. NW 4
LICO
 1 Speaker 70–73 04 Apr 1899 — 26 Apr 1902 3 0 22

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Joel Reaman  m 
 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 260 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
1		 North-Western Territories
30 June 1888
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  INDE  Minority
ID: 30486(F) — 21 Jan 2023 12:06 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
60
IND
 2/2 72 27.69% -116 Winner:
IND
 188 72.31% Joel Reaman
Eligible: inc. Votes: 475 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
3		 North-Western Territories
31 October 1894
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LICO  Minority
ID: 30544(F) — 20 Jan 2023 22:06 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
66
IND
 1/2 280 58.95% +85 Loser:
IND
 195 41.05% Thomas Carleton

Service: 4 years 3 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 418 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
4		 North-Western Territories
4 November 1898
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LICO  Minority
ID: 30564(F) — 20 Jan 2023 20:00 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
70
IND
 1/2 215 51.44% +12 Loser:
IND
 203 48.56% James Nixon

Service: 3 years 6 months 16 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 628 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Territorial
5		 North-Western Territories
21 May 1902
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LICO  Majority
ID: 30597(F) — 21 Jul 2021 17:10 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
73		 Successor:
LICO
 337 53.66% Thomas MacNutt

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, SELD: North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905
(pp. 5, 11-12, 16, 33, 35)		 28 Dec 2023
EN Wikipedia
William Eakin		 28 Dec 2023

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