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♂ William Short
aliasWilliam Short
Record
56579 · 8087

Type of record
Elected candidate
Known but unelected candidate ✓
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 0%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 0 1 1
Birth 11 January 1866 → 158 years + 4 months ago
Lived 60 years
Only run 18 July 1921 → 102 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 55 years + 6 months
Death 27 January 1926 → 98 years + 3 months ago
 
Special notes
None
 
William Short (1866–1926) 200x174
© Photo 1904 — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path point 1  
13 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph W. Adair  m 
⊖ John C. Bowen  m 
⊖ Ern Brown  m 
⊖ James K. Cornwall  m 
⊖ Albert F. Ewing  m 
⊖ Nellie Letitia McClung  f 
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m 
 		 ⊖ Adéodat Boileau  m 
⊖ John Boyle  m 
⊖ Ambrose U.G. Bury  m 
⊖ Herbert H. Crawford  m 
⊖ Jeremiah W. Heffernan  m 
⊖ Andrew R. McLennan  m 
 
Eligible: inc. Votes: 75,758 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 26
Provincial
5		 Alberta
18 July 1921
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27610(F) — 29 Oct 2022 11:00 ET
✗
 Failed to enter this legislature
Age
55
IND
 19/26 1,447 9.55% -3,842 Winner:
LIB
 5,289 34.91% Jeremiah W. Heffernan

Online biographical reference

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William Short (Alberta politician)		 13 Jan 2024

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