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♂ George Harold Van Allen
aliasGeorge Van Allen
Record
62737 · 8323

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 22 June 1890 → 133 years + 10 months ago
Lived 46 years + 11 months
First mandate 22 August 1935 → 88 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 45 years + 2 months
Death 15 June 1937 → 86 years + 11 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
George Harold Van Allen (1890–1937)
© Photo FindAGrave.com — 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 1 9 23 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
13 documented challengers
⊖ Tiny Atkinson  m 
⊖ David Milwyn Duggan  m 
⊖ William Samuel Hall  m 
⊖ Frederick C. Jamieson  m 
⊖ Jan Lakeman  m 
⊖ Walter Morrish  m 
⊖ Gerald O'Connor  m 
 		 ⊖ Samuel Augustus Gordon Barnes  m 
⊖ John W. Findlay  m 
⊖ William R. Howson  m 
⊖ Orvis A. Kennedy  m 
⊖ John F. Lymburn  m 
⊖ David Mullen  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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
45
LIB
 3/27 1,255 3.37% -1,563 Loser:
SC
 2,818 7.56% William S. Hall
After his election:
15 Jun 1937 46
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 1 year 9 months 24 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 49,212 Votes: 31,099 Participation: 63.19% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
8		 Alberta
7 October 1937
By-Election
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27835(F) — 6 Mar 2022 12:28 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
46		 Successor:
LIB
 17,788 57.20% Edward L. Gray

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
George Harold Van Allen		  4 May 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
George H. Van Allen, KC		  4 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
George Van Allen		  4 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  4 May 2024 18:03 (but data presented dynamically)

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