Henry Liddell Mabb was a politician, Mountie, and rancher who lived in Manitoba, Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century.
13 Facts About Henry Mabb
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Henry Mabb studied and reputedly mastered four languages while living in Belgium.
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The Henry Mabb family appears to have moved back to England, where brother Stanley Holder Henry Mabb was born at Sutton in 1886.
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However, according to a 1911 census document, for some reason Henry Mabb indicates he immigrated to Canada in 1890.
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Some newspaper accounts suggest Henry Mabb was involved as a translator in talks between representatives of the Crown and the Lakota leader Sitting Bull.
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Henry Mabb was fully engaged in service for five years until he was discharged with honours in 1895.
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Henry Mabb was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1920 provincial election, defeating two Liberal candidates in the constituency of Fisher.
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Henry Mabb was elected as an "independent Farmer" candidate, and served with the opposition Independent-Farmer bloc for the next two years.
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Henry Mabb served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1920 to 1922.
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Unlike others in the Independent-Farmer bloc, Henry Mabb did not run for the United Farmers of Manitoba in the 1922 provincial election.
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Nicholas Bachynsky received the UFM nomination, while Henry Mabb ran for re-election as an independent candidate.
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Henry Mabb later joined the Conservative Party, and challenged Bachynsky again in the 1927 election.
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Henry Mabb married twice, first to Bertha May Mullett, and then, in 1905, to Clara Bird.