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♂ Walter Morrish
aliasWalter Morrish
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 1 2
Birth 19 October 1890 → 133 years + 6 months ago
Lived 83 years + 3 months
First mandate 22 June 1936 → 87 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 45 years + 8 months
Death 30 January 1974 → 50 years + 3 months ago
Exit → Death 33 years + 10 months after 20 March 1940
Special notes
None
 

Walter Morrish (1890–1974)
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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 3 8 27 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
13 documented challengers
⊖ Tiny Atkinson  m 
⊖ David Milwyn Duggan  m 
⊖ William Samuel Hall  m 
⊖ Frederick C. Jamieson  m 
⊖ Jan Lakeman  m 
⊖ David Mullen  m 
⊖ George Van Allen  m 
 		 ⊖ Samuel Augustus Gordon Barnes  m 
⊖ John W. Findlay  m 
⊖ William R. Howson  m 
⊖ Orvis A. Kennedy  m 
⊖ John F. Lymburn  m 
⊖ Gerald O'Connor  m 
 
Eligible: 49,212 Votes: 38,052 Participation: 77.32% Candidacies: 27
Provincial
8		 Alberta
22 August 1935
General
Single trans. vote (6)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27792(F) — 13 Jan 2024 13:43 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
44
LIB
 18/27 612 1.64% -504 Winner:
LIB
 1,116 2.99% C. Gerald O'Connor
Eligible: 49,212 Votes: 18,048 Participation: 36.67% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
8		 Alberta
22 June 1936
By-Election
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27833(F) — 29 Oct 2022 13:53 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
45
LIB
 1/3 9,863 54.65% +3,734 Loser:
INDM
 6,129 33.96% M. Crang

Service: 3 years 8 months 27 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 59,685 Votes: 42,665 Participation: 75.30% Candidacies: 17
Provincial
9		 Alberta
21 March 1940
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27852(F) — 6 Mar 2022 15:10 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
49		 Successor:
INDM
 4,128 9.44% Hugh J. Macdonald

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Walter Morrish		  4 May 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Dr. Walter Morrish		  4 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Walter Morrish		  4 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  4 May 2024 12:43 (but data presented dynamically)

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