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♂ Joseph Murphy Scruggs
aliasJoseph Scruggs
Record
55799 · 8373

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 30 May 1888 → 135 years + 11 months ago
Lived 75 years + 9 months
First mandate 18 June 1959 → 64 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 71 years
Death 20 March 1964 → 60 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 9 months + 4 days after 16 June 1963
Special notes
None
 

Joseph Murphy Scruggs (1888–1964)
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Family tie with other documented individual
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Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 3 11 28 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Floyd Johnson  m 
 
 
Eligible: 3,551 Votes: 2,789 Participation: 78.54% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
14		 Alberta
18 June 1959
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28162(F) — 17 Oct 2021 18:18 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
71
SC
 1/4 1,080 38.96% +419 Loser:
PC
 661 23.85% Bennidict V. Griep

Service: 3 years 11 months 29 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 3,790 Votes: 2,490 Participation: 65.70% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
15		 Alberta
17 June 1963
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28195(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
75		 Successor:
SC
 1,306 52.66% Ernest L. Lee

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Joseph Murphy Scruggs Jr.		  7 May 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Joseph M. Scruggs		  7 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Joseph Scruggs		  7 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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