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♀ Nellie Letitia McClung
aliasNellie Letitia McClung
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 1 2
Birth 20 October 1873 → 150 years + 6 months ago
Lived 77 years + 10 months
First mandate 18 July 1921 → 102 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 47 years + 8 months
Death 1 September 1951 → 72 years + 8 months ago
Exit → Death 25 years + 2 months after 27 June 1926
Special notes
None
 
Nellie Letitia McClung (1873–1951)
© Photo c.1905–22 Cyril Jessop — 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

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
20 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph W. Adair  m 
⊖ John C. Bowen  m 
⊖ Ernest M. Brown  m 
⊖ James K. Cornwall  m 
⊖ Albert F. Ewing  m 
⊖ John Irwin  m 
⊖ Alexander A. McGillivray  m 
⊖ Robert H. Parkyn  m 
⊖ Alexander Ross  m 
⊖ George H. Webster  m 
 		 ⊖ Adéodat Boileau  m 
⊖ John R. Boyle  m 
⊖ Ambrose U.G. Bury  m 
⊖ Herbert H. Crawford  m 
⊖ Jeremiah W. Heffernan  m 
⊖ Robert C. Marshall  m 
⊖ Andrew R. McLennan  m 
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m 
⊖ William Short  m 
⊖ Fred J. White  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
47
LIB
 3/26 5,388 35.56% +410 Loser:
UFA
 4,978 32.85% William J. Jackman

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
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
52
LIB
 6/11 1,928 9.77% -539 Winner:
ILAB
 2,467 12.50% Robert H. Parkyn

Online biographical references (6)

Bilingual references are counted as a single reference.  Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
ThoughtCo, Humanities: Biography of Nellie McClung, Canadian Activist for Women's Rights		 17 Mar 2024
EN Non-standard link
Canadian Museum of History, Face to Face, We Fought: Nellie McClung, feminist 1873-1951		 17 Mar 2024
EN Canadian Encyclopedia
Nellie McClung		 17 Mar 2024
FR Encyclopédie canadienne
Nellie McClung		 17 Mar 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Letitia E. 'Nellie' McClung		 17 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
Nellie McClung		 17 Mar 2024
FR Wikipédia
Nellie McClung		 17 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 17 Mar 2024 19:57 (but data presented dynamically)

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