Home / Birthday profiles / Edmund James Flynn
Portrait of Edmund James Flynn

Birthday profile

Edmund James Flynn

Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician (died 1927)

Find birthday twinsOpen interactive profile
Born
November 16, 1847
Died
June 7, 1927
Zodiac sign
Scorpio
Birth year
1847

About Edmund James Flynn

Edmund James Flynn was a Canadian lawyer, politician and the tenth premier of Quebec, from 1896 to 1897. Flynn won re-election each time until 1890. In that year, Honoré Mercier's Parti National won a landslide victory and Flynn lost his seat. Flynn became the Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Gaspé in 1878.

Biography source: Wikipedia. The profile adds birthday-specific historical context from the Celebs Birthday Today editorial database.

Edmund James Flynn timeline

  1. Flynn became the Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the district of Gaspé in 1878.
  2. Flynn won re-election each time until 1890.

The world when Edmund James Flynn was born

Edmund James Flynn was born in 1847. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1847

  • Best-selling bookJane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë & Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineMormons arrive in Salt Lake Valley
  • Technology milestoneChloroform used as anesthetic
  • World population~1.27B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderJames K. Polk
  • U.S. population20.8M

1847 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Edmund James Flynn's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure18472026
Population20.8M341 million

Sources and editorial standards

This profile combines a biographical source with structured birthday and historical context. Sources recorded for this profile: Wikipedia, VIAF, ISNI, Wikidata. See our editorial policy for sourcing, corrections, and review standards.

Read the source biography on Wikipedia. Wikipedia text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.