14th New Brunswick Legislature explained

The 14th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between January 28, 1847, and May 31, 1850.

The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of New Brunswick William MacBean George Colebrooke. Edmund Walker Head became governor in April 1848.

In May 1848, the governor formed what has been described as the first "responsible government" in the province, bringing more balanced representation of the members of the assembly into the Executive Council and giving more decision-making power to the council.[1]

John Wesley Weldon was chosen as speaker for the house.

List of members

Electoral DistrictName
Saint John CountyJohn Jordan
John R. Partelow
William J. Ritchie
Robert D. Wilmot
YorkLemuel A. Wilmot
Charles Fisher
James Taylor
Thomas Baillie
WestmorlandDaniel Hanington
William Wilson
William Hazen Botsford
Amand Landry
KingsSylvester Z. Earle
William McLeod
John C. Vail
QueensHugh Johnston, Jr.
Thomas Gilbert
CharlotteJames Brown
Robert Thomson
William Porter
James Boyd
NorthumberlandAlexander Rankin
John A. Street
William Carman
Martin Cranney
SunburyGeorge Hayward
Thomas O. Miles
KentJohn Wesley Weldon
David Wark
GloucesterWilliam End
Joseph Read
CarletonCharles Connell
James Tibbits
RestigoucheJohn Montgomery
Andrew Barberie
AlbertWilliam H. Steeves
John Smith
Saint John CityRobert L. Hazen
Isaac Woodward

Notes

  1. Book: Gibson, James A.. Head, Sir Edmund Walker . University of Toronto, Université Laval, and Library and Archives Canada. 2000. Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online. 1861–1870 (Volume IX).

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