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Keep. Yes, the article needs improvement, but as long as it's verifiable that they actually held the claimed role and aren't an outright hoax, politicians who held seats in national legislatures are always automatically notable regardless of the quality of sourcing present in the article as written. For a person who held an NPOL-passing office 110 years ago, the sources are not all that likely to be readily Googlable — but there are definitely books and archived newspaper coverage somewhere. Our references do not have to be web-accessible; we are allowed to cite print-only content. Wikipedia editors don't always put in the work to locate archival sourcing that they can't just find on a simple Google search, so our articles on older politicians who held office before the age of the internet are often much more inadequate than our articles on contemporary officeholders — but as long as we can verify that the person actually held the claimed role, we keep the article and flag it for reference improvement.
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