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♂ Percival Baker
aliasPercival Baker
Record
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☆   Baptist   
Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 1 2
Birth 11 January 1867 → 157 years + 3 months ago
Lived 54 years + 6 months
First mandate 18 July 1921 → 102 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 54 years + 6 months
Death 19 July 1921 → 102 years + 9 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
Percival Baker (1867–1921)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 
Well that's interesting!
Baker was the elected United Farmers of Alberta candidate in Ponoka in the 1921 general election, but died the day after. He had had an accident while chopping down trees on his farm three weeks prior to the election.
 

Service in elected office

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 0 0 1 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
1 documented challenger
⊖ William A. Campbell  m  (2 runoffs)
 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 950 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 3
Provincial
3		 Alberta
17 April 1913
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 27498(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
46
IND
 3/3 197 20.98% -288 Winner:
LIB
 485 51.65% William A. Campbell
Eligible: inc. Votes: 2,206 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
5		 Alberta
18 July 1921
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27631(F) — 5 Mar 2022 20:21 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
54
UFA
 1/2 1,391 63.06% +576 Loser:
LIB
 815 36.94% William A. Campbell
After his election:
19 Jul 1921 54
UFA
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 1 day (Gov't)
Eligible: n/a Votes: 0 Participation: n/a Candidacy: 1
Provincial
5		 Alberta
9 December 1921
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27657(F) — 29 Oct 2022 09:55 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
54		 Successor:
UFA
 Acclam. John E. Brownlee

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Percival Baker		 03 Feb 2024
EN Wikipedia
Percival Baker		 03 Feb 2024

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