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♂ Robert C. Edwards
aliasRobert C. Edwards
Record
18280 · 8190

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 17 September 1860 → 163 years + 7 months ago
Lived 62 years + 1 month
First mandate 18 July 1921 → 102 years + 9 months ago
↳ at age 60 years + 10 months
Death 14 November 1922 → 101 years + 5 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
Robert C. Edwards (1860–1922) 200x191
© Photo 1910 — 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 0 3 27 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
9 documented challengers
⊖ Herbert B. Adshead  m 
⊖ Samuel B. Hillocks  m 
⊖ Robert H. Parkyn  m 
⊖ Alexander Ross  m 
⊖ Fred J. White  m 
 		 ⊖ Thomas H. Blow  m 
⊖ Robert C. Marshall  m 
⊖ Robert Pearson  m 
⊖ George H. Webster  m 
 
Eligible: 32,103 Votes: 75,876 Participation: 53.50% Candidacies: 20
Provincial
5		 Alberta
18 July 1921
General
Plurality-at-large (5)
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27600(F) — 29 Oct 2022 09:48 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
60
IND
 2/20 6,400 42.17% +2,009 Loser:
LIB
 4,391 28.94% George H. Webster
After his election:
14 Nov 1921 61
IND
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 3 months 27 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: inc. Votes: 18,255 Participation: inc. Candidacies: 2
Provincial
5		 Alberta
15 January 1923
By-Election
First-past-the-post
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27662(F) — 5 Mar 2022 19:37 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
62		 Successor:
IND
 9,930 54.40% William M. Davidson

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Bob Edwards		 12 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
Bob Edwards (satirist)		 12 Jan 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 12 Jan 2024 22:41 (but data presented dynamically)

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