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21st New Brunswick Legislature
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.
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 became leader after Mitchell was named to the Canadian senate.
Members
| Electoral District | Name | Party | First elected / previously elected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albert | Abner R. McClelan | Independent | 1854 |
| John Lewis | Independent | 1856, 1865 | |
| Amos Atkinson Bliss (1867) | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Carleton | Charles Connell | Independent | 1846, 1864 |
| William Lindsay | Liberal | 1861 | |
| James Hartley (1867) | Independent | 1867 | |
| George W. White (1868) | Conservative | 1868 | |
| Charlotte | John McAdam | Conservative | 1854, 1864, 1866 |
| James G. Stevens | Independent | 1866 | |
| Francis Hibbard | Independent | 1866 | |
| James W. Chandler | Independent | 1857, 1866 | |
| Benjamin Robert Stephenson (1867) | Liberal | 1867 | |
| Henry Frye (1867) | Independent | 1867 | |
| John S. Covert (1868) | Independent | 1868 | |
| Gloucester | Robert Young | Independent | 1861 |
| John Meahan | Independent | 1861 | |
| Kent | William S. Caie | Independent | 1865 |
| Owen McInerney | Independent | 1866 | |
| Urbain Johnson (1869) | Liberal | 1869 | |
| Kings | George Ryan | Independent | 1850, 1861, 1866 |
| William P. Flewelling | Independent | 1866 | |
| John Flewelling | Independent | 1866 | |
| Gideon McLeod (1867) | Independent | 1867 | |
| Northumberland | John M. Johnson | Independent | 1850, 1866 |
| Edward Williston | Independent | 1861 | |
| Richard Sutton | Independent | 1854, 1865 | |
| George Kerr | Conservative | 1852 | |
| William Moore Kelly (1867) | Independent | 1867 | |
| Jacob C. Gough (1867) | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Queens | John Ferris | Liberal | 1854, 1866 |
| Robert Thorne Babbit | Independent | 1866 | |
| Walter S. Butler (1867) | Independent | 1867 | |
| Restigouche | John McMillan | Independent | 1857 |
| Alexander C. DesBrisay | Independent | 1865 | |
| William Montgomery (1867) | Independent | 1867 | |
| Saint John City | Samuel Leonard Tilley | Conservative | 1850, 1854, 1857, 1866 |
| Andrew R. Wetmore | Conservative | 1865 | |
| William Keans (1867) | Independent | 1867 | |
| Saint John County | Charles N. Skinner | Liberal | 1861, 1866 |
| John H. Gray | Conservative | 1850, 1866 | |
| Robert D. Wilmot | Conservative | 1850, 1865 | |
| James Quinton | Independent | 1866 | |
| Joseph Coram (1867) | Independent | 1865, 1867 | |
| John Waterbury Cudlip (1867) | Independent | 1857, 1867 | |
| George Edwin King (1867) | Conservative | 1867 | |
| Sunbury | John Glasier | Liberal | 1861 |
| William E. Perley | Conservative | 1856 | |
| John S. Covert (1868) | Liberal | 1868 | |
| Victoria | Benjamin Beveridge | Independent | 1863 |
| Vital Hébert | Independent | 1866 | |
| Lévite Thériault (1868) | Liberal | 1868 | |
| Charles A. Hammond (1868) | Independent | 1868 | |
| Westmorland | Albert J. Smith | Liberal | 1854 |
| Bliss Botsford | Independent | 1850, 1856, 1865 | |
| Angus McQueen | Independent | 1866 | |
| Amand Landry | Independent | 1846, 1853, 1861 | |
| Joseph Lytle Moore (1867) | Independent | 1867 | |
| York | Hiram Dow | Independent | 1861, 1866 |
| Charles Fisher | Liberal | 1854, 1865 | |
| Alexander Thompson | Independent | 1866 | |
| John A. Beckwith | Conservative | 1866 | |
| William Hayden Needham (1868) | Independent | 1850, 1865, 1868 | |
| John Pickard (1867) | Independent | 1867 |
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