List of New Brunswick senators

This is a list of past and present members of the Senate of Canada representing the province of New Brunswick.

During the Quebec Conference of 1864, New Brunswick was guaranteed 10 Senate seats, but because Prince Edward Island stalled for equal representation in the upper house, New Brunswick was awarded two of Prince Edward Island's Senate seats until 1873 when Prince Edward Island gave in and joined confederation New Brunswick dropped to 10 seats. New Brunswick kept 12 seats until the first two senators ended their term after 1873, they were not replaced.

Current senators

	Name	Party	Division1	Date appointed	Appointed by2	Mandatory retirement
	Jim Quinn	Canadian Senators Group	New Brunswick	June 21, 2021	Trudeau, J.	January 25, 2032
	René Cormier	Independent Senators Group	New Brunswick	November 10, 2016	Trudeau, J.	April 27, 2031
	Nancy Hartling	Independent Senators Group	New Brunswick	September 21, 2005	Martin	February 1, 2025
	John McNair	Independent Senators Group	New Brunswick	October 31, 2023	Trudeau, J.	June 3, 2032
	Victor Boudreau	Non-affiliated	New Brunswick	June 28, 2024	Trudeau, J.	May 3, 2045
	Rose-May Poirier	Conservative	Saint-Louis-de-Kent	February 28, 2010	Harper	March 2, 2029
	David Adams Richards	Non-affiliated	New Brunswick	August 30, 2017	Trudeau, J.	October 17, 2025
	Pierrette Ringuette	Independent Senators Group	New Brunswick	December 12, 2002	Chrétien	December 31, 2030
	Krista Ann Ross	Canadian Senators Group	New Brunswick	October 31, 2023	Trudeau, J.	September 30, 2042

Notes:

¹ Senators are appointed to represent New Brunswick. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within the province as his or her division.
² Senators are appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister.

Historical

	Name	Party	Division1	Date appointed	Appointed by2	End of term
	Michael Adams	Conservative	Northumberland	January 7, 1896	Bowell	January 1, 1899
	Margaret Jean Anderson	Liberal	Northumberland-Miramichi	March 23, 1978	Trudeau, P. E.	August 7, 1990
	George Thomas Baird	Conservative	Victoria	June 19, 1895	Bowell	April 21, 1917
	Frank Black	Conservative	Westmorland	November 25, 1921	Meighen	February 28, 1945
	Amos Botsford	Conservative	New Brunswick	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	March 22, 1894
	Thomas-Jean Bourque	Conservative	Richibucto	January 20, 1917	Borden	February 16, 1952
	John Boyd	Liberal-Conservative	Saint John	February 11, 1880	MacDonald	September 21, 1893
	Alfred Johnson Brooks	Progressive Conservative	Royal	September 12, 1960	Diefenbaker	November 7, 1967
	John Bryden	Liberal	New Brunswick	November 23, 1994	Chrétien	October 31, 2009
	George Burchill	Liberal	Northumberland-Miramichi	April 19, 1945	King	August 19, 1977
	Kennedy Burns	Liberal	New Brunswick	March 21, 1893	Thompson	June 23, 1895
	Charles Burpee	Liberal	New Brunswick	February 1, 1900	Laurier	July 19, 1900
	Erminie Cohen	Progressive Conservative	Saint John	June 4, 1993	Mulroney	July 23, 2001
	Arthur Copp	Liberal	Westmorland	September 25, 1925	King	December 5, 1949
	Eymard Corbin	Liberal	Grand-Sault	July 9, 1984	Turner	August 2, 2009
	John Costigan	Liberal	Victoria	January 15, 1907	Laurier	September 29, 1916
	Joseph Day	Liberal	Saint John-Kennebecasis	October 4, 2001	Chrétien	January 24, 2020
	John Waterhouse Daniel	Conservative	Saint John City	March 18, 1912	Bordon	January 11, 1933
	James Dever	Liberal	Saint John	March 14, 1868	MacDonald	May 7, 1904
	Mabel DeWare	Progressive Conservative	Moncton	September 23, 1990	Mulroney	August 9, 2001
	James Domville	Liberal	Rothesay	April 20, 1903	Laurier	July 30, 1921
	J.J. Hayes Doone	Liberal	Charlotte	June 25, 1949	St. Laurent	April 6, 1953
	John Ellis	Liberal	Saint John	September 3, 1900	Laurier	June 10, 1913
	Clarence Emerson	Progressive Conservative	Saint John-Albert	October 12, 1957	Diefenbaker	September 25, 1963
	Henry Emmerson	Liberal	Dorchester	June 25, 1949	St. Laurent	June 21, 1954
	John Ferguson	Conservative	Bathurst	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	August 21, 1888
	Muriel McQueen Fergusson	Liberal	Fredericton	May 19, 1953	St. Laurent	May 23, 1975
	Walter Edward Foster	Liberal	Saint John	December 6, 1928	King	November 14, 1947
	Edgar Fournier	Progressive Conservative	Madawaska-Restigouche	September 24, 1962	Diefenbaker	February 11, 1983
	J. Michel Fournier	Liberal	Restigouche-Gloucester	December 9, 1971	Trudeau, P. E.	September 29, 1980
	George Fowler	Conservative	Kings and Albert	June 29, 1917	Borden	September 2, 1924
	Arthur Gillmor	Liberal	New Brunswick	April 2, 1900	Laurier	April 13, 1903
	Daniel Gillmor	Liberal	St. George	January 15, 1907	Laurier	February 22, 1918
	John Glasier	Liberal	Sunbury	March 14, 1868	MacDonald	July 7, 1894
	Richard Hatfield	Progressive Conservative	New Brunswick	September 7, 1990	Mulroney	April 26, 1991
	Robert Leonard Hazen	Conservative	New Brunswick	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	August 15, 1874
	George Burpee Jones	Conservative	New Brunswick	July 20, 1935	Bennett	April 27, 1950
	Judith Keating	Independent Senators Group	New Brunswick	January 30, 2020	Trudeau, J.	July 16, 2021
	George King	Liberal	Queen's	December 18, 1896	Laurier	April 28, 1928
	Noël Kinsella	Conservative	Fredericton-York-Sunbury	September 12, 1990	Mulroney	November 28, 2014
	Joseph Landry	Liberal	Village of Cap-Pelé	February 26, 1996	Chrétien	June 19, 1997
	Roméo LeBlanc	Liberal	Beauséjour	June 29, 1984	Trudeau, P. E.	November 21, 1994
	Antoine Joseph Léger	Conservative	L'Acadie	August 14, 1935	Bennett	April 7, 1950
	Aurel Léger	Liberal	Kent	June 12, 1953	St. Laurent	December 28, 1961
	Viola Léger	Liberal	L'Acadie	June 13, 2001	Chrétien	June 29, 2005
	James Lewin	Liberal	Saint John (Lancaster)	November 10, 1876	Mackenzie	March 11, 1900
	Rose-Marie Losier-Cool	Liberal	Tracadie	March 21, 1995	Chrétien	June 18, 2012
	Abner Reid McClelan	Liberal	New Brunswick	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	December 9, 1896
	John Anthony McDonald	Independent	Shediac	February 17, 1921	Meighen	December 12, 1948
	Charles McElman	Liberal	Nashwaak Valley	February 24, 1966	Pearson	April 1, 1990
	Frederic McGrand	Liberal	Sunbury	July 28, 1955	St. Laurent	January 22, 1988
	Paul McIntyre	Conservative	New Brunswick	September 6, 2012	Harper	November 2, 2019
	Alexander Neil McLean	Liberal	Southern New Brunswick	April 18, 1945	King	March 12, 1967
	Donald A. McLean	Liberal	Charlotte County	March 15, 1968	Pearson	November 5, 1973
	Peter McSweeney	Liberal	Northumberland	March 15, 1899	Laurier	February 2, 1921
	Hervé Michaud	Liberal	Kent	March 15, 1968	Pearson	June 5, 1978
	Peter Mitchell	Liberal	New Brunswick	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	July 13, 1872
	Percy Mockler	Conservative	New Brunswick	January 2, 2009	Harper	April 14, 2024
	William Muirhead	Liberal	Chatham	January 4, 1873	MacDonald	December 29, 1884
	William Hunter Odell	Conservative	Rockwood	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	July 25, 1891
	Frederick William Pirie	Liberal	Victoria-Carleton	April 19, 1945	King	October 3, 1956
	Pascal Poirier	Liberal-Conservative	L'Acadie	March 9, 1885	MacDonald	September 25, 1933
	Nelson Rattenbury	Liberal	Saint John	February 14, 1964	Pearson	May 27, 1973
	Daniel Riley	Liberal	Saint John	December 21, 1973	Trudeau, P. E.	September 13, 1984
	Brenda Robertson	Progressive Conservative	Riverview	December 21, 1984	Mulroney	May 23, 2004
	John Robertson	Liberal	New Brunswick	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	August 3, 1876
	Fernand Robichaud	Liberal	Saint-Louis-de-Kent New Brunswick3	September 22, 1997	Chrétien	December 2, 2014
	Hédard-J. Robichaud	Liberal	Gloucester	June 28, 1968	Trudeau, P. E.	October 8, 1971
	Louis Robichaud	Liberal	L'Acadie-Acadia	December 21, 1973	Trudeau, P. E.	October 21, 2000
	Clifford Robinson	Liberal	Moncton	May 5, 1924	King	July 27, 1944
	Calixte Savoie	Independent Liberal	L'Acadie	July 28, 1955	St. Laurent	August 23, 1970
	Cyril Sherwood	Progressive Conservative	Royal	October 3, 1979	Clark	July 1, 1990
	Jean-Maurice Simard	Progressive Conservative	Edmundston	June 26, 1985	Mulroney	June 16, 2001
	Benjamin Franklin Smith	Conservative	Victoria-Carleton	April 14, 1935	Bennett	May 19, 1944
	Jabez Bunting Snowball	Liberal	Chatham	May 1, 1891	MacDonald	February 1, 1902
	William Steeves	Liberal	New Brunswick	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	December 9, 1873
	Carolyn Stewart-Olsen	Conservative	New Brunswick	August 27, 2009	Harper	July 27, 2021
	Austin C. Taylor	Liberal	Westmorland	January 3, 1957	St. Laurent	January 17, 1965
	Nancy Teed	Progressive Conservative	Saint John	August 30, 1990	Mulroney	January 29, 1993
	Thomas Temple	Conservative	York	April 23, 1896	Bowell	August 25, 1899
	Norbert Thériault	Liberal	Baie-du-Vin	March 26, 1979	Trudeau, P. E.	February 16, 1996
	Frederick Thompson	Liberal	Fredericton	February 7, 1902	Laurier	April 27, 1922
	William Henry Thorne	Conservative	Saint John	July 26, 1913	Borden	July 8, 1923
	Irving Randall Todd	Conservative	Milltown	March 7, 1918	Borden	December 27, 1932
	Marilyn Trenholme Counsell	Liberal	New Brunswick	September 9, 2003	Chrétien	October 22, 2008
	Onésiphore Turgeon	Liberal	Gloucester	October 27, 1922	King	November 18, 1944
	Clarence Joseph Veniot	Liberal	Gloucester	April 18, 1945	King	June 1, 1966
	John D. Wallace	No Affiliation [1]	New Brunswick	January 2, 2009	Harper	February 1, 2017
	David Wark	Liberal	Fredericton	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	August 20, 1905
	Robert Wilmot	Conservative	New Brunswick	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation	February 10, 1880
	Josiah Wood	Conservative	Westmorland	August 5, 1895	Bowell	March 12, 1912

Notes:

¹ Senators are appointed to represent New Brunswick. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within New Brunswick as his or her division.
² Senators are appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister. ³ Division designated as Saint-Louis-de-Kent from September 23, 1997 to February 27, 2010 and New Brunswick from February 28, 2010 to the present.

Maritimes regional senators

Senators listed were appointed to represent the Maritimes under section 26 of the Constitution Act. This clause has only been used once before to appoint two extra senators to represent four regional Senate divisions: Ontario, Quebec, the Maritimes and the Western Provinces.

As vacancies open up among the normal members of the Senate, they are automatically filled by the regional senators. Regional senators may also designate themselves to a senate division in any province of their choosing in their region.

	Name	Party1	Division2	Date appointed	Appointed by3	Date shifted to provincial	Province shifted to	Provincial seat vacated by	End of term
	Michael Forrestall	Conservative	Dartmouth/Eastern Shore, NS	September 27, 1990	Mulroney	November 10, 1994	Nova Scotia	Robert Muir	June 9, 2006
	James W. Ross	Progressive Conservative	Maritimes divisional	September 27, 1990	Mulroney	April 26, 1991	New Brunswick	Richard Hatfield	May 25, 1993

Notes:

¹ Party listed was the last party of which the senator was a member.
² Senators are appointed to represent their region. Each senator may choose to designate a geographic area within their region as his or her division.
³ Senators are appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister.

Declined Senate appointments

Only three people have ever declined a Senate appointment, two from New Brunswick and one from Quebec.

	Name	Party	Date appointed	Appointed by
	William Todd	Conservative	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation
	Edward Chandler	Liberal-Conservative	October 23, 1867	Royal Proclamation

See also

• Lists of Canadian senators

References

1. Previously was an independent senator but political affiliation was reclassified by the Senate Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration on June 12, 2016.

External links

• Current Senators List Parliament Website
• A Legislative and Historical Overview of the Senate