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
Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore (26 November 1829 – 30 January 1912) was a British Liberal Party politician and colonial administrator. He had extensive contact with Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.
Career
Gordon wa ...
.
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.
The speaker was selected as John H. Gray. From 1867 to 1870, Bliss Botsford held the position of speaker.
The
Confederation Party led by
Peter Mitchell formed the government; Mitchell was a member of the province's
Legislative Council.
Andrew R. Wetmore
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore (August 16, 1820 – March 7, 1892) was a New Brunswick politician, jurist, and a member of a prominent United Empire Loyalist family.
Wetmore entered politics in 1865 with his election to the colonial legislature a ...
became leader after Mitchell was named to the Canadian senate.
History
Members
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References
''Journal of the House of Assembly of ... New Brunswick for the second session of the twentieth ... and the first session of the twenty first General Assembly'' (1866)
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