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♂ Robert Pearson
aliasRobert Pearson
Record
48691 · 7971

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 2 0 2
Birth 18 May 1879 → 144 years + 11 months ago
Lived 77 years + 1 month
First mandate 18 September 1917 → 106 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 38 years + 4 months
Death 3 July 1956 → 67 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 30 years + 6 days after 27 June 1926
Special notes
None
 
Robert Pearson (1879–1956)
© Photo 1918 McDermid Studio — 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 8 9 7 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
12 documented challengers
⊖ Herbert B. Adshead  m 
⊖ James K. Cornwall  m 
⊖ Samuel B. Hillocks  m 
⊖ Roberta C. McAdams  f 
⊖ Alexander Ross  m 
⊖ George H. Webster  m 
 		 ⊖ Thomas H. Blow  m 
⊖ Robert C. Edwards  m 
⊖ Robert C. Marshall  m 
⊖ Robert H. Parkyn  m 
⊖ James H. Walker  m 
⊖ Fred J. White  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 25,601 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 21
Provincial
4		 Alberta
18 September 1917
General
Plurality-at-large (2)
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 27587(F) — 29 Oct 2022 09:22 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
38
CAF
 1/21 4,286 33.48% +958 Loser:
CAF
 3,328 26.00% G.E. Harper

Service: 3 years 9 months 29 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 32,103 Votes: 75,876 Participation: 53.50% Candidacies: 20
Provincial
5		 Alberta
18 July 1921
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27600(F) — 29 Oct 2022 09:48 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent
Age
42
IND
 5/20 5,141 33.88% +750 Loser:
LIB
 4,391 28.94% George H. Webster

Service: 4 years 11 months 9 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 34,287 Votes: 19,737 Participation: 59.40% Candidacies: 11
Provincial
6		 Alberta
28 June 1926
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27671(F) — 29 Oct 2022 10:10 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
47		 Successor:
ILAB
 2,467 12.50% Robert H. Parkyn

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Robert Pearson		 13 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Robert Pearson		 13 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 13 Mar 2024 21:26 (but data presented dynamically)

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