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21st General Assembly of Prince Edward Island

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The 21st General Assembly of Prince Edward Island represented the colony of Prince Edward Island between April 12, 1859, and 1863. An elected assembly had been dissolved by the governor earlier in 1859 because it could not choose a speaker.

The Assembly sat at the pleasure of the Governor of Prince Edward Island, Dominick Daly. Donald Montgomery was elected speaker.

Edward Palmer was Premier.

Members

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The members of the Prince Edward Island Legislature after the general election of 1859 were:

Riding Name
1st Prince Nicholas Conroy
Patrick Doyle
2nd Prince John Yeo
David Ramsay
3rd Prince James Yeo
Stanislaus F. Perry
4th Prince James C. Pope
Cornelius Howatt
1st Queens Donald Montgomery
Colin Holm
2nd Queens Alexander Laird
John Longworth
3rd Queens George Coles
Francis Kelly
4th Queens John H. Gray
William Douse
1st Kings John Knight
William Cooper
2nd Kings Edward Whelan
John Sutherland
3rd Kings Edward Thornton
Ronald Walker
4th Kings Joseph Wightman
Finlay McNeill
Town and Royalty of Charlottetown Edward Palmer
Daniel Davies
Town and Royalty of Georgetown Thomas Heath Haviland
Andrew A. McDonald Roderick MacAulay after April 27, 1859
Town and Royalty of Princetown George Sinclair
Donald Montgomery

Note that the losing candidate for Georgetown and Royalty, Roderick MacAulay, petitioned the Prince Edward Island House of Assembly to complain about an undue election. Specifically, Roderick MacAulay claimed that a number of people had voted in the Georgetown / Georgetown Royalty electoral district who were not entitled to vote. As a result, the colonial government held a review of the eligibility of some of the voters. This review took place at the Georgetown courthouse starting on March 25, 1859. As a result of this review, Roderick MacAulay was declared elected by the House of Assembly in place of Andrew A. MacDonald on April 27, 1859. Roderick MacAulay took his seat in the House of Assembly the following day.

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