28th New Brunswick Legislature

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The 28th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between March 9, 1893, and September 1895.

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Samuel Leonard Tilley served as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick until September 1893, when he was replaced by John Boyd. John James Fraser became lieutenant-governor after Boyd's death in December of that year.

John Percival Burchill was chosen as speaker.

The Liberal Party led by Andrew G. Blair formed the government. However, Blair was defeated in his own riding and was forced to run in a by-election in Queen's.

The province's Legislative Council was abolished in 1892.

History

Members

Electoral DistrictName
Saint John County Albert T. Dunn
Harrison A. McKeown
York William K. Allen
William T. Howe
James K. Pinder
Herman H. Pitts
Westmorland  ? Smith
W. Woodbury Wells
Henry A. Powell
Amasa E. Killam
Kings Albert S. White
George G. Scovil
Gabriel Flewelling
Queens Thomas Hetherington [1]
Andrew G. Blair (1892)
Laughlin P. Farris
Charlotte James Mitchell
George F. Hill
James O'Brien
James Russell
Northumberland L.J. Tweedie
John O'Brien
John P. Burchill
James Robinson
Sunbury William E. Perley
Charles B. Harrison
Kent James D. Phinney
Jean-Baptiste Goguen
Gloucester Patrick G. Ryan
Joseph Poirier
Carleton Henry A. Connell
Marcus C. Atkinson (1895)
J.T. Allan Dibblee
Restigouche William Murray
Charles H. LaBillois
Albert H.R. Emmerson
W.J. Lewis
Victoria George Thomas Baird
Madawaska Lévite Thériault
Saint John City Alfred Augustus Stockton
Silas Alward
A.C. Smith
William Shaw

Notes

  1. resigned

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Preceded by Legislative Assemblies of New Brunswick
1892–1895
Succeeded by