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About Baldwin Baldwinson
- Baldwin Larus Baldwinson (October 26, 1856 – October 5, 1936) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1899 to 1907 and from 1910 to 1913, as a member of the Conservative Party.Baldwinson was born in Akureyri, Iceland, and attended public school in that country.
- He came to Canada in 1873, and worked in the newspaper industry.
- He was editor of the Icelandic Weekly Heimskringla, and served as president, secretary and manager of the Heimskringla News and Publishing Co., Ltd.
- He was a member of the Lutheran church. He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1892 provincial election, and lost to Liberal Frederick Colcleugh by seventy-eight votes in the St.
- Andrews constituency.
- He ran again in the 1896 election, and lost to Liberal Sigtryggur Jonasson by seventy-nine votes. He was elected to the legislature on his third attempt, defeating Jonasson by eight votes in the 1899 election, for the deferred Gimli constituency.
- The Conservatives won the election, and Baldwinson served in the legislature as a backbench supporter of the administrations led by Hugh John Macdonald and Rodmond Roblin.
- He was re-elected by acclamation in the 1903 election.Baldwinson lost to Jonasson by 156 votes in the 1907 election.
- Jonasson did not seek re-election in the 1910 campaign, and Baldwin returned to the legislature after defeating a new Liberal candidate by 450 votes.
- He resigned his seat in 1913, on being appointed as deputy Provincial Secretary.
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