The 16th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between October 19, 1854, and May 30, 1856.
The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of New Brunswick John Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton.
Daniel Hanington was chosen as speaker for the house.
Electoral District | Name |
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Saint John County | John R. Partelow [1] |
Robert Duncan Wilmot | |
John Hamilton Gray | |
William J. Ritchie | |
York | Charles Fisher |
Charles McPherson | |
James Taylor | |
George L. Hatheway | |
Westmorland | Daniel Hanington |
Albert J. Smith | |
Amand Landry | |
James Steadman | |
Kings | Matthew McLeod |
George Ryan | |
Henry W. Purdy | |
Queens | Samuel H. Gilbert |
John Ferris | |
Charlotte | Arthur Hill Gillmor |
John McAdam | |
James Boyd | |
James Brown | |
Northumberland | John A. Street |
George Kerr | |
John M. Johnson, Jr. | |
Richard Sutton | |
Sunbury | George Hayward |
Enoch Lunt | |
Kent | Robert Barry Cutler |
Francis McPhelim | |
Gloucester | William End |
Patrick McNaughton | |
Carleton | Charles Connell |
Richard English | |
Restigouche | John Montgomery |
Chipman Botsford | |
Albert | Edward Stevens |
Abner R. McClelan | |
Victoria | Francis Rice |
James Tibbits | |
Saint John City | James A. Harding |
Samuel Leonard Tilley |
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