15th New Brunswick Legislature explained

The 15th New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between February 6, 1851, and May 19, 1854.

The assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of New Brunswick Edmund Walker Head.

Charles Simonds was chosen as speaker for the house. After Simonds resigned his seat, William Crane served as speaker from January 1852 to March 1853 when he resigned due to poor health. Daniel Hanington was chosen to replace Crane as speaker.

List of members

Electoral DistrictName
Saint John CountyRobert D. Wilmot
William J. Ritchie[1]
John F. Goddard (1851)
John H. Gray
Charles Simonds
John Johnson (1851)
YorkJames Taylor
George L. Hatheway
Thomas Pickard, Jr.
Lemuel A. Wilmot
WestmorlandWilliam Crane[2]
Amand Landry (1853)
Daniel Hanington
Bliss Botsford
Robert B. Chapman
KingsMatthew McLeod
George Ryan
Henry W. Purdy
QueensJohn Earle
Thomas Gilbert
CharlotteJohn James Robinson
Robert Thomson
William Porter
Bartholomew R. Fitzgerald
NorthumberlandAlexander Rankin[3]
Peter Mitchell (1852)
John A. Street
John M. Johnson
John T. Williston
SunburyGeorge Hayward
William Scoullar
KentRobert B. Cutler
Francis McPhelim
GloucesterRobert Gordon
Joseph Read
CarletonCharles Connell
Horace H. Beardsley
RestigoucheJohn Montgomery
Andrew Barberie
AlbertWilliam H. Steeves
Reuben Stiles
VictoriaJohn R. Partelow
Francis Rice
Saint John CitySamuel Leonard Tilley
James A. Harding (1851)
William H. Needham

Notes

  1. resigned seat in 1851
  2. died in 1853
  3. died in 1852

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