27th New Brunswick Legislature

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The 27th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between March 13, 1890, and September 28, 1892.

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Samuel Leonard Tilley served as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.

Albert S. White was chosen as speaker.

The Liberal Party led by Andrew G. Blair was able to form a government with the support of independent members.

The 27th New Brunswick Legislature abolished the upper house, the Legislative Council, on April 16, 1891. Donald Desserud and Stewart Hyson argued that "the impetus to rid the province of its upper assembly seems to have been less a concern over the council’s elite status, and more because it cost money to operate. Nevertheless, the time it took to abolish the upper chamber tested the patience of New Brunswick’s premier, Andrew Blair (1883-1896), who complained that his appointees to the upper chamber -- chosen for their supposed willingness to support his reform agenda -- developed an alarming independence once they took their seats. Blair eventually got the vote he wanted; however, the council imposed a condition: the council would continue until the next election. So Blair requested and was granted a dissolution two years early, and 'An Act Relating to the Legislative Council' formally abolished the chamber on 16 April 1891." [1]

History

Members

Electoral DistrictNamePartyFirst elected / previously elected
  Saint John County Harrison A. McKeown Conservative 1890
  Alfred Augustus Stockton Conservative 1883
  James Rourke Conservative 1890
  William Shaw Conservative 1890
  York [a] A.G. Blair [b] Liberal 1878
  William Wilson [b] Liberal 1885
  Richard Bellamy [c]
John Anderson (1890) [b] 		Liberal 1886
 John Anderson
 Independent 1890
  Thomas Colter (1890) Conservative 1890
  Westmorland O.M. Melanson Conservative 1890
  Henry A. Powell [d] Conservative 1890
 H.T. Stevens [d]
Henry A. Powell (1891)		 Independent 1890
  D.L. Hanington Conservative 1870, 1878
  Joseph A. McQueen (1891) Liberal 1891
  Kings William Pugsley Liberal 1885
  Albert S. White Liberal 1886
  George L. Taylor Conservative 1886
  Queens Thomas Hetherington Liberal 1882
  Albert Palmer Liberal 1882
  Charlotte James Mitchell Liberal 1882
  William Douglas Conservative 1886
  George F. Hibbard Independent 1882
  James Russell Independent 1886
  Northumberland James Robinson Conservative 1890
  L.J. Tweedie Liberal 1874, 1886
  John P. Burchill Liberal 1882, 1887
  John O'Brien Conservative 1890
  Sunbury William E. Perley Conservative 1866, 1874, 1890
  Charles B. Harrison Liberal 1886
  Kent James D. Phinney Conservative 1887
  Olivier J. Leblanc [e] Liberal 1882
  Auguste Théophile Léger (1891) Liberal 1891
  Gloucester Patrick G. Ryan Liberal 1876
  Joseph Poirier Conservative 1890
  Carleton Marcus C. Atkinson Conservative 1886
  George R. Ketchum Conservative 1886
  Restigouche William Murray Conservative 1885
  Charles H. LaBillois Conservative 1882
  Albert W.J. Lewis Independent 1878, 1890
  Gains S. Turner Conservative 1878
  Victoria George Thomas Baird Conservative 1884
  James E. Porter (1890) Liberal 1890
  Madawaska Lévite Thériault Liberal 1868, [f] 1886
  Saint John City Silas Alward Liberal 1868, [f] 1886
 A.C. Smith Conservative 1890

Notes

  1. ↑ election protested and second election held in October 1890
  2. 1 2 3 re-elected
  3. ↑ lost second election
  4. 1 2 election appealed
  5. ↑ ran for federal seat
  6. 1 2 Victoria

References

  1. ↑ Desserud, Donald (2011). "Bringing New Brunswick's Legislative Assembly into the 21st Century". Series of Papers on Provincial and Territorial Legislatures: 8.
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