21st New Brunswick Legislative Assembly

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The 21st New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between June 21, 1866 and June 3, 1870.

The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of New Brunswick Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon. Charles Hastings Doyle became Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick in 1867 following Confederation. He was succeeded by Francis Pym Harding in October 1867 and then Lemuel Allan Wilmot in July 1868.

John H. Gray was chosen as speaker. Bliss Botsford served as speaker from 1867 to 1870.

The Confederation Party led by Peter Mitchell formed the government; Mitchell was a member of the province's Legislative Council. Andrew R. Wetmore became leader after Mitchell was named to the Canadian senate.

[edit] List of Members

Electoral District Name
St. John County Charles N. Skinner
John H. Gray
Robert D. Wilmot [1]
James Quinton
York Hiram Dow
Charles Fisher [2]

John Pickard (1867) [2]
William Hayden Needham (1869)

Alexander Thompson
John A. Beckwith
Westmorland Albert J. Smith [2]

Joseph Lytle Moore (1867)

Bliss Botsford
Angus McQueen
Amand Landry
King's George Ryan
William P. Flewelling
John Flewelling
Queen's John Ferris[2]

Walter S. Butler (1867)

Robert Thorne Babbit
Charlotte John McAdam [1]

John S. Covert (1868)

James G. Stevens [3]

Henry Frye (1867)

Frances Hibbard
James W. Chandler [3]

Benjamin Robert Stephenson (1867)

Northumberland John M. Johnson[2]

William Moore Kelly (1867)

Edward Williston
Richard Sutton
George Kerr
Sunbury John Glasier
William E. Perley
Kent William S. Caie
Owen McInerney [4]

Urbain Johnson (1869)

Gloucester Robert Young
John Meahan
Carleton Charles Connell [2]

James Hartley (1867) [5]
George W. White (1868)

William Lindsay
Restigouche John McMillan
Alexander C. DesBrisay
Albert Abner R. McClelan [1]
John Lewis [4]

Amos Atkinson Bliss (1867)

Victoria Benjamin Beveridge
Vital Hebert [5]

Lévite Thériault (1868)

City of St. John Samuel Leonard Tilley
Andrew R. Wetmore

Notes:

  1. ^ a b c named to the Senate of Canada
  2. ^ a b c d e f elected to federal seat
  3. ^ a b resigned seat after being named a judge
  4. ^ a b named to Legislative Council
  5. ^ a b died in 1868
Preceded by
20th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly
Legislative Assemblies of New Brunswick
1866-1870
Succeeded by
22nd New Brunswick Legislative Assembly

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