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♂ James Ramsey
aliasJames Ramsey
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 4 April 1864 → 160 years + 1 month ago
Lived 75 years + 8 months
First mandate 7 June 1917 → 106 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 53 years + 2 months
Death 23 December 1939 → 84 years + 4 months ago
Exit → Death 18 years + 5 months after 17 July 1921
Special notes
None
 
James Ramsey (1864–1939) 200x223
© Photo 1921 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 1 9 Z

Leadership roles

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. AB 4
CONS
 1 Party leader 55–56 18 Feb 1920 — 14 Feb 1921 0 11 27
2. AB 4
CONS
 1 Opposition Leader 55–56 18 Feb 1920 — 10 Apr 1920 0 1 23

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
1 documented challenger
⊖ Joseph A. Clarke  m 
 
 
Eligible: 9,946 Votes: 6,746 Participation: 67.83% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
4		 Alberta
7 June 1917
General
First-past-the-post
Gov't  LIB  Majority
ID: 27547(F) — 5 Mar 2022 16:30 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
53
CONS
 1/4 3,035 45.00% +482 Loser:
LIB
 2,553 37.86% Frederick Duncan

Service: 4 years 1 month 10 days (Oppo.)
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
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
57		 Successor:
LIB
 5,289 34.91% Jeremiah W. Heffernan

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
James Ramsey		 12 Jan 2024
EN Wikipedia
James Ramsey (politician)		 12 Jan 2024

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