39th General Assembly of Prince Edward Island

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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.

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C. Gavin Duffy was elected speaker.

There were four sessions of the 39th General Assembly:

SessionStartEnd
1stApril 6, 1920May 1, 1920
2ndMarch 10, 1921April 27, 1921
3rdMarch 14, 1922May 3, 1922
4thMarch 20, 1923May 2, 1923

Members

Kings

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Kings    Daniel C. MacDonald Liberal    Harry D. McLean Conservative
2nd Kings    Robert Cox Liberal    James P. McIntyre Liberal
3rd Kings    John A. Dewar [1] Conservative    James J. Johnston Liberal
4th Kings    Wallace B. Butler Liberal    William G. Sutherland [2]

Mark Bonnell (1922)

 Liberal
5th Kings    Stephen Hessian Liberal    James David Stewart Conservative

Prince

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Prince    Benjamin Gallant [3]

Jeremiah Blanchard (1922)

 Liberal    Christopher Metherall Liberal
2nd Prince    Albert Charles Saunders Liberal    William H. Dennis Liberal
3rd Prince    Aubin Edmond Arsenault [4]

Adrien Arsenault (1922)

 Conservative    Alfred E. MacLean [5]

Thomas MacNutt (1922)

 Liberal
4th Prince    John Howatt Bell Liberal   
 Walter Lea Liberal
5th Prince    James A. MacNeill [6]

John F. MacNeill (1922)

 Conservative

Independent

   Creelman McArthur Liberal

Queens

DistrictAssemblymanPartyCouncillorParty
1st Queens    Murdock Kennedy Conservative    Cyrus Crosby Liberal
2nd Queens    Bradford W. LePage Liberal    George E. Hughes Liberal
3rd Queens    Peter Brodie Liberal    David McDonald Liberal
4th Queens    James C. Irving Liberal    Frederick J. Nash Liberal
5th Queens    Edmund Higgs Liberal    Gavan Duffy Liberal

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. ↑ elected to House of Commons
  6. ↑ ran for federal seat

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