13th New Brunswick Legislature

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The 13th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between December 28, 1843, and September 16, 1846.

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The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of New Brunswick William MacBean George Colebrooke.

John Wesley Weldon was chosen as speaker for the house.

History

Members

Electoral DistrictName
Saint John County Charles Simonds
John R. Partelow
John Jordan
Robert Payne
York John Allen
James Taylor
Lemuel A. Wilmot
Charles Fisher
Westmorland Philip Palmer
John Smith
William Hazen Botsford
Daniel Hanington
Kings Samuel Freeze [1]
Sylvester Z. Earle
Queens John Earle
Thomas Gilbert
Charlotte Robert Thomson
James Boyd
George Stilman Hill
James Brown
Northumberland Alexander Rankin
John T. Williston [2]
John Ambrose Street (1843)
Sunbury William Scoullar
Whitehead S. Barker
Kent John Wesley Weldon
David Wark
Gloucester William End
Joshua Alexandre
Carleton Charles Perley
Jeremiah M. Connell
Restigouche Andrew Barberie
Peter Stewart
Saint John City Robert L. Hazen
Lewis Burns

Notes

  1. died in 1844
  2. unseated after an appeal

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Preceded by Legislative Assemblies of New Brunswick
1843–1846
Succeeded by