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♂ Nathan Eldon Tanner
aliasEldon Tanner
Record
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Mormon   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 4 0 4
Birth 9 May 1898 → 126 years ago
Lived 84 years + 6 months
First mandate 22 August 1935 → 88 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 37 years + 3 months
Death 27 November 1982 → 41 years + 5 months ago
Exit → Death 30 years + 3 months after 4 August 1952
Special notes
None
 
Nathan Eldon Tanner (1898–1982)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 16 11 10 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. AB 8
SC
 1 Speaker 37–38 06 Feb 1936 — 04 Jan 1937 0 10 29

Electoral history

Races 4  
Path points 5  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Briant Stringam  m 
 		 ⊖ George Stringam  m 
 
Eligible: 3,344 Votes: 3,192 Participation: 95.45% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
8		 Alberta
22 August 1935
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27785(F) — 6 Mar 2022 10:19 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
37
SC
 1/3 2,027 66.18% +1,462 Loser:
UFA
 565 18.45% George L. Stringam

Service: 4 years 6 months 27 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,941 Votes: 4,047 Participation: 81.91% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
9		 Alberta
21 March 1940
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27845(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
41
SC
 1/2 2,160 54.44% +352 Loser:
INDM
 1,808 45.56% S.H. Nelson

Service: 4 years 4 months 17 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,549 Votes: 3,285 Participation: 72.21% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
10		 Alberta
8 August 1944
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27904(F) — 6 Mar 2022 16:53 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
46
SC
 1/3 2,104 64.44% +1,512 Loser:
INDM
 592 18.13% William G. Matson

Service: 4 years 8 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 5,089 Votes: 3,052 Participation: 59.97% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
11		 Alberta
17 August 1948
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27958(F) — 13 Jan 2024 12:39 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
50
SC
 1/2 1,981 67.73% +1,037 Loser:
LIB
 944 32.27% Briant W. Stringam

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 4,891 Votes: 2,740 Participation: 56.02% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
12		 Alberta
5 August 1952
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28009(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
54		 Successor:
SC
 2,011 76.15% Edgar W. (Ted) Hinman

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
N. Eldon Tanner		  4 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Nathan Eldon Tanner		  4 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  4 May 2024 16:06 (but data presented dynamically)

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