# 22nd New Brunswick Legislature

The 22nd New Brunswick Legislative Assembly represented New Brunswick between February 16, 1871, and May 15, 1874.
Lemuel Allan Wilmot served as Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick until November 1873, when he was replaced by Samuel Leonard Tilley.
E.A. Vail was chosen as speaker.
The Liberal-Conservatives led by George E. King formed the government. George L. Hathaway took over the leadership of the party in February 1871. George E. King became leader again in 1872 after Hathaway's death.
In May 1871, the Common Schools Act was passed; it came into effect the following year. This legislation implemented a system of publicly funded schools. However, it excluded denominational schools; religious instruction in schools operated under the system was banned. The act offended Roman Catholics and Acadians in the province.

## Members

| Electoral District | Name | Party | First elected / previously elected |
| Saint John County | George E. King | Conservative | 1867 |
| Saint John County | Edward Willis | Independent | 1870 |
| Saint John County | Michael Whalen Maher | Independent | 1870 |
| Saint John County | Joseph Coram | Independent | 1867 |
| York | Robert Robinson | Independent | 1870 |
| York | G.L. Hatheway | Conservative | 1870 |
| York | John A. Beckwith | Conservative | 1866 |
| York | Charles McPherson | Independent | 1870 |
| York | John James Fraser (1872) | Conservative | 1872 |
| Westmorland | P.A. Landry | Conservative | 1870 |
| Westmorland | Angus McQueen | Independent | 1866 |
| Westmorland | Bliss Botsford | Independent | 1866 |
| Westmorland | Joseph Lytle Moore | Independent | 1867 |
| Westmorland | Daniel Lionel Hanington (1870) | Conservative | 1870 |
| Westmorland | John A. Humphrey (1872) | Conservative | 1872 |
| Kings | E.A. Vail | Independent | 1870 |
| Kings | George Otty | Independent | 1870 |
| Kings | John Herbert Crawford | Liberal | 1870 |
| Kings | J.W. Nowlan (1873) | Liberal | 1873 |
| Queens | R.T Babbit | Independent | 1866 |
| Queens | Gideon D. Bailey | Independent | 1870 |
| Queens | Ebenezer Williams (1871) | Independent | 1871 |
| Queens | Walter S. Butler (1872) | Independent | 1867, 1872 |
| Charlotte | Benjamin Robert Stephenson | Liberal | 1867 |
| Charlotte | Francis Hibbard | Independent | 1866 |
| Charlotte | Joseph Donald | Independent | 1870 |
| Charlotte | J. McAdam | Conservative | 1866 |
| Charlotte | John Cameron Brown (1872) | Liberal | 1872 |
| Northumberland | William Moore Kelly | Independent | 1867 |
| Northumberland | Jacob C. Gough | Independent | 1867, 1869 |
| Northumberland | Michael Adams | Conservative | 1870 |
| Northumberland | Thomas F. Gillespie | Conservative | 1870 |
| Sunbury | Archibald Harrison | Liberal | 1870 |
| Sunbury | John S. Covert | Liberal | 1868 |
| Kent | William Shand Caie | Independent | 1866 |
| Kent | Antoine Girouard | Conservative | 1870 |
| Kent | Henry O'Leary (1873) | Independent | 1873 |
| Gloucester | Samuel H. Napier | Independent | 1870 |
| Gloucester | Théotime Blanchard | Conservative | 1870 |
| Carleton | William Lindsay | Liberal | 1866 |
| Carleton | George W. White | Conservative | 1868 |
| Carleton | David Irvine (1873) | Liberal | 1873 |
| Restigouche | William Montgomery | Independent | 1867 |
| Restigouche | Alexander C. DesBrisay | Liberal | 1866 |
| Restigouche | John Phillips (1870) | Liberal | 1870 |
| Albert | Rufus Palmer | Liberal | 1870 |
| Albert | James Ryan | Independent | 1870 |
| Albert | Martin B. Palmer (1873) | Liberal | 1873 |
| Victoria | Lévite Thériault | Liberal | 1868 |
| Victoria | James Tibbits | Independent | 1870 |
| Saint John City | Aaron Alward | Independent | 1870 |
| Saint John City | William Wedderburn | Independent | 1870 |