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♂ Jeremiah W. Heffernan
aliasJeremiah W. Heffernan
Record
26864 · 8093

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 4 January 1884 → 140 years + 4 months ago
Lived 85 years + 8 months
First mandate 18 July 1921 → 102 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 37 years + 6 months
Death 21 September 1969 → 54 years + 7 months ago
Exit → Death 43 years + 2 months after 27 June 1926
Special notes
None
 
Jeremiah W. Heffernan (1884–1969) 200x205
© Photo 1929 McDermid Studio — 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

Race 1  
Path points 2  
13 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph W. Adair  m 
⊖ John C. Bowen  m 
⊖ Ernest M. Brown  m 
⊖ James K. Cornwall  m 
⊖ Albert F. Ewing  m 
⊖ Andrew R. McLennan  m 
⊖ William Short  m 
 		 ⊖ Adéodat Boileau  m 
⊖ John R. Boyle  m 
⊖ Ambrose U.G. Bury  m 
⊖ Herbert H. Crawford  m 
⊖ Nellie L. McClung  f 
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  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
37
LIB
 5/26 5,289 34.91% +311 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
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
42		 Successor:
CONS
 857 9.46% David M. Duggan

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Jeremiah W. Heffernan KC		 12 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
Jeremiah Heffernan		 12 Jan 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 12 Jan 2024 23:03 (but data presented dynamically)

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