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

DistrictAssemblymanPartyFirst 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
DistrictCouncillorPartyFirst 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

DistrictAssemblymanPartyFirst elected / previously elected
1st Prince    Benjamin Gallant [3] Liberal 1900, 1915
  Jeremiah Blanchard (1922) Liberal 1893, [b] 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)Independent1922
DistrictCouncillorPartyFirst 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)1922
4th Prince   
 Walter Lea Liberal 1915
5th Prince    Creelman McArthur Liberal 1919

Queens

DistrictAssemblymanPartyFirst 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
DistrictCouncillorPartyFirst elected / previously elected
1st Queens    Cyrus Crosby Liberal 1909, 1919
2nd Queens    George E. Hughes Liberal 1900, [c] 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. ↑ First elected as a Conservative
  3. ↑ 5th Queens

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