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♂ John C. Bowen
aliasJohn C. Bowen
Record
6550 · 8091

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 33%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 2 3
Birth 3 October 1872 → 151 years + 7 months ago
Lived 84 years + 2 months
First mandate 18 July 1921 → 102 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 48 years + 9 months
Death 2 January 1957 → 67 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 30 years + 6 months after 27 June 1926
Special notes
None
 
John C. Bowen (1872–1957) 200x209
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — 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 4 11 9 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. AB 5
LIB
 1 Opposition Leader 53 15 Mar 1926 — 01 Apr 1926 0 0 17
2. AB 5
LIB
 1 ✓ Party leader 53 18 Mar 1926 — 20 Apr 1926 0 1 2

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 3  
25 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph W. Adair  m 
⊖ Adéodat Boileau  m 
⊖ Ernest M. Brown  m 
⊖ Joseph A. Clarke  m 
⊖ Herbert H. Crawford  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Albert F. Ewing  m 
⊖ C. Lionel Gibbs  m 
⊖ William T. Henry  m 
⊖ Jan Lakeman  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ John F. Lymburn  m 
⊖ Andrew R. McLennan  m 
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Charles Y. Weaver  m 
 		 ⊖ Samuel A.G. Barnes  m 
⊖ John R. Boyle  m 
⊖ Ambrose U.G. Bury  m 
⊖ James K. Cornwall  m 
⊖ David M. Duggan  m 
⊖ John W. Findlay  m 
⊖ Jeremiah W. Heffernan  m 
⊖ Frederick C. Jamieson  m 
⊖ John W. Leedy  m 
⊖ Nellie L. McClung  f 
⊖ Warren W. Prevey  m 
⊖ William Short  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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
48
LIB
 2/26 5,803 38.30% +825 Loser:
UFA
 4,978 32.85% William J. Jackman

Service: 4 years 11 months 9 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 33,741 Votes: 18,721 Participation: 55.50% Candidacies: 18
Provincial
6		 Alberta
28 June 1926
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27679(F) — 13 Jan 2024 13:43 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
53
LIB
 7/18 1,147 4.79% 290 Winner:
CONS
 857 9.46% David M. Duggan
Eligible: inc. Votes: 17,356 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 4
Provincial
7		 Alberta
9 January 1931
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27773(F) — 29 Oct 2022 10:35 ET
✗
 Failed comeback to this legislature
Age
58
LIB
 3/4 2,934 16.90% -5,092 Winner:
CONS
 8,026 46.24% Frederick C. Jamieson

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
CBC News (Edmonton), 70 years after rift, family donates artifacts to Alberta		 12 Jan 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
The Honourable John C. Bowen		 12 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
John C. Bowen		 12 Jan 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 12 Jan 2024 21:46 (but data presented dynamically)

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