39th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island

The 39th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island was in session from April 6, 1920, to June 23, 1923. The Liberal Party led by John Howatt Bell formed the government.

C. Gavin Duffy was elected speaker.

There were four sessions of the 39th General Assembly:

Session	Start	End
1st	April 6, 1920	May 1, 1920
2nd	March 10, 1921	April 27, 1921
3rd	March 14, 1922	May 3, 1922
4th	March 20, 1923	May 2, 1923

Members

Kings

	District	Assemblyman	Party	First elected / previously elected
	1st Kings	Daniel C. MacDonald	Liberal	1919
	2nd Kings	Robert Cox	Liberal	1908, 1919
	3rd Kings	John A. Dewar [1]	Independent [a]	1910
	4th Kings	Wallace B. Butler	Liberal	1919
	5th Kings	Stephen Hessian	Liberal	1919
	District	Councillor	Party	First elected / previously elected
	1st Kings	Harry D. McLean	Conservative	1916
	2nd Kings	James P. McIntyre	Liberal	1919
	3rd Kings	James J. Johnston	Liberal	1915
	4th Kings	William G. Sutherland [2]	Liberal	1919
		Mark Bonnell (1922)	Liberal	1922
	5th Kings	James David Stewart	Conservative	1917

Prince

	District	Assemblyman	Party	First elected / previously elected
	1st Prince	Benjamin Gallant [3]	Liberal	1900, 1915
		Jeremiah Blanchard (1922)	Liberal	1893, [a] 1922
	2nd Prince	Albert Charles Saunders	Liberal	1915
	3rd Prince	Aubin Edmond Arsenault [4]	Conservative	1908
		Adrien Arsenault (1922)	Conservative	1922
	4th Prince	John Howatt Bell	Liberal	1886, 1915
	5th Prince	James A. MacNeill [5]	Conservative	1908
		John F. MacNeill (1922)	Independent	1922
	District	Councillor	Party	First elected / previously elected
	1st Prince	Christopher Metherall	Liberal	1919
	2nd Prince	William H. Dennis	Liberal	1915
	3rd Prince	Alfred E. MacLean [6]	Liberal	1915
		Thomas MacNutt (1922)	Liberal	1922
	4th Prince	Walter Lea	Liberal	1915
	5th Prince	Creelman McArthur	Liberal	1919

Queens

	District	Assemblyman	Party	First elected / previously elected
	1st Queens	Murdock Kennedy	Conservative	1906
	2nd Queens	Bradford W. LePage	Liberal	1919
	3rd Queens	Peter Brodie	Liberal	1919
	4th Queens	James C. Irving	Liberal	1919
	5th Queens	Edmund Higgs	Liberal	1919
	District	Councillor	Party	First elected / previously elected
	1st Queens	Cyrus Crosby	Liberal	1909, 1919
	2nd Queens	George E. Hughes	Liberal	1900, [b] 1915
	3rd Queens	David McDonald	Liberal	1915
	4th Queens	Frederick J. Nash	Liberal	1919
	5th Queens	Gavan Duffy	Liberal	1919

Notes

1. Dewar won election and sat as an "Independent Farmer", from "John Alexander Dewar". Prince Edward Island Legislative Documents Online. Archived from the original on 2018-11-25. Retrieved 2015-06-06.
2. died
3. died in 1921
4. named judge
5. ran for federal seat
6. elected to House of Commons

Footnotes

1. First elected as a Conservative
2. 5th Queens (Councillor)

References

• Election results for the Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly, 1919-07-24
• O'Handley, Kathryn Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1994 ISBN   0-921925-54-9