Educated at Horton Academy in Wolfville, N.S. ( now Acadia University)  and  University of Edinburgh, Scotland, M.D. 1843

Shortest time being P.M.:

2 months 7 days from May 1 to July 8, 1896

Age on becoming PM: 74- oldest to assume office. Premier of N.S. 1864-67 and one of the Fathers of Confederation. Won 11 consecutive elections. 

One of their sons, Charles Hibbert Tupper, also had a distinguished career in politics and served as a Cabinet minister under Macdonald, Abbott, Thompson and Bowell.

When his wife, Frances Morse died in 1912, they had been married 65 years.

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Sir Charles Tupper: the noble Roman

See his Recollections of Sixty Years (1914); E. M. Saunders, Life and Letters (2 vol., 1916; suppl. ed. by Sir Charles H. Tupper, 1926).

Dictionary Canadian Biography Vol.  XIV, p. 1014-1023

DCB Online

See  The Prime Ministers of Canada 

Sir Charles and Lady Frances Tupper, October 1896. click picture to enlarge

Birth: July 2, 1821 Amherst, Nova Scotia. Married with 6 children. Son, Sir Charles Hibbert was an MP from 1882-1904 ( won 6 elections) and another son, William Johnson was Lt. Gov. of Manitoba from 1934-40.

Death: Died: 30 October 1915, Age 94, Bexley Heath, Kent, England, of heart failure. Buried in St. John's Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia. See: Grave sites of the Prime Ministers

Photo: Peter Bennett

Oldest to take office:

Became Prime Minister May 1, 1896 at the age of 74 years 10 months.

A Speech in the House of Commons, April 14, 1896