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♀ Roberta Catherine McAdams
aliasRoberta Catherine McAdams
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
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Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 21 July 1880 → 143 years + 9 months ago
Lived 79 years + 4 months
First mandate 18 September 1917 → 106 years + 7 months ago
↳ at age 37 years + 1 month
Death 16 December 1959 → 64 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 38 years + 4 months after 17 July 1921
Special notes
None
 
Roberta Catherine McAdams (1880–1959)
© Photo 1917 — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
McAdams is the second woman elected to the Alberta legislature. She would be considered the first of two if the election in her constituency had been held on the same date as the 1917 general election.
 

Length of service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 3 9 28 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
3 documented challengers
⊖ James K. Cornwall  m 
⊖ James H. Walker  m 
 		 ⊖ Robert Pearson  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
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 → New to this legislature
Age
37
CAF
 2/21 4,023 31.43% +695 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
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
40		 Successor:
IND
 5,141 33.88% Robert Pearson

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Roberta MacAdams (Also served under surname Price)		 13 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Roberta MacAdams		 13 Mar 2024

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