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♀ Cora Taylor Casselman
aliasCora Taylor Casselman
Record
9934 · 7896

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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Canada 1 1 2
Alberta 0 1 1
Total 1 2 3
Birth 18 October 1888 → 135 years + 6 months ago
Lived 75 years + 10 months
First mandate 2 June 1941 → 82 years + 11 months ago
↳ at age 52 years + 7 months
Death 6 September 1964 → 59 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 19 years + 2 months after 10 June 1945
Special notes
None
 
Cora Taylor Casselman (1888–1964)
© Photo 1941 — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
⊖ Frederick C. Casselman (1885–1941) Spouse  
 
Well that's interesting!
The Liberal candidate in the 1941 by-election in Edmonton East, Casselman was the first woman from Alberta elected to the Canadian Parliament, replacing her husband who had died three months earlier.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Canada 4 0 8

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
14 documented challengers
⊖ Patrick H. Ashby  m 
⊖ Ambrose A. Holowach  m 
⊖ Orvis A. Kennedy  m 
⊖ Marcel J.A. Lambert  m 
⊖ Ernest C. Manning  m 
⊖ J. Harper Prowse  m 
⊖ J. Donovan Ross  m 
 		 ⊖ Edgar H. Gerhart  m 
⊖ Floyd A. Johnson  m 
⊖ Jan Lakeman  m 
⊖ A. Albert MacLeod  m 
⊖ J. Percy Page  m 
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m 
⊖ Harold E. Tanner  m 
 
Eligible: 30,816 Votes: 14,110 Participation: 45.79% Candidacies: 3
Federal
19		 Alberta
2 June 1941
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 23108(F) — 6 Sep 2022 20:52 ET
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 → New to Parliament
Age
52
LIB
 1/3 7,306 51.78% +3,107 Loser:
SC
 4,199 29.76% Orvis A. Kennedy

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 38,145 Votes: 24,698 Participation: 64.75% Candidacies: 5
Federal
20		 Alberta
11 June 1945
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Minority
ID: 23128(F) — 16 Aug 2021 01:28 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
56
LIB
 3/5 5,313 21.51% -2,901 Winner:
SC
 8,214 33.26% Patrick H. Ashby
Eligible: 108,424 Votes: 57,256 Participation: 52.81% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
12		 Alberta
5 August 1952
General
Single trans. vote (7)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28014(F) — 29 Oct 2022 21:36 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
63
LIB
 16/29 819 1.57% -56 Winner:
LIB
 875 1.68% Harold E. Tanner

Online biographical references (2)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Parliament of Canada (ParlInfo)
Cora Taylor Casselman, M.P.		 19 Mar 2024
FR Parlement du Canada (ParlInfo)
Cora Taylor Casselman, députée		 19 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Cora Taylor Casselman		 19 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 19 Mar 2024 18:58 (but data presented dynamically)

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