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♂ George Harry Webster
aliasGeorge Harry Webster
Record
64413 · 8273

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 67%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 2 1 3
Birth 2 September 1868 → 155 years + 8 months ago
Lived 65 years + 2 months
First mandate 28 June 1926 → 97 years + 10 months ago
↳ at age 57 years + 9 months
Death 10 November 1933 → 90 years + 5 months ago
Died in office Yes
Special notes
None
 
George Harry Webster (1868–1933)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — Public domain
Family tie with other documented individual
None
 

Election or appointment outside the scope of PoliCan

Pre-Conf. ✗
Canadian Senate ✗
Legis. Council ✗
✗
Deputy Minister ✗
Auto. Region ✗
Mayor/Reeve Calgary, Alberta (1923–1926)
Mun./Co. Council ✗
School Board ✗
Blank/Vide ✗

Length of service in elected office within the scope of PoliCan

Legislature Total Government Opposition
years months days years months days years months days
Alberta 7 4 12 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. AB 7
LIB
 1 ✓ Party leader 63–64 01 Mar 1932 — 20 Oct 1932 0 7 19

Electoral history

Races 3  
Path points 4  
15 documented challengers
⊖ Herbert B. Adshead  m 
⊖ John J. Bowlen  m 
⊖ Hugh C. Farthing  m 
⊖ John Irwin  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Nellie L. McClung  f 
⊖ Alexander A. McGillivray  m 
⊖ Robert Pearson  m 
⊖ Fred J. White  m  (3 runoffs)
 		 ⊖ Thomas H. Blow  m 
⊖ Robert C. Edwards  m 
⊖ Samuel B. Hillocks  m 
⊖ Robert C. Marshall  m  (2 runoffs)
⊖ Harold W. McGill  m 
⊖ Robert H. Parkyn  m  (3 runoffs)
⊖ Alexander Ross  m  (2 runoffs)
 
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
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
52
LIB
 6/20 4,391 28.94% -750 Winner:
IND
 5,141 33.88% Robert Pearson
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
57
LIB
 2/11 2,941 14.90% +1,013 Loser:
LIB
 1,928 9.77% Nellie L. McClung

Service: 3 years 11 months 21 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 43,217 Votes: 24,981 Participation: 57.80% Candidacies: 13
Provincial
7		 Alberta
19 June 1930
General
Single trans. vote (6)
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27724(F) — 29 Oct 2022 11:49 ET
✓
 Re-elected incumbent (Party leader)
Age
61
LIB
 4/13 3,651 14.95% +2,107 Loser:
IND
 1,544 6.32% Robert H. Parkyn
After his election:
10 Nov 1933 65
LIB
 →
Vac.
 Died in office
Service: 3 years 4 months 22 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 43,217 Votes: 21,987 Participation: 50.88% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
7		 Alberta
15 January 1934
By-Election
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  UFA  Majority
ID: 27777(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
—
 Deceased
Age
65		 Successor:
LIB
 8,665 39.41% William H. Ross

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
George H. Webster		 17 Mar 2024
EN Wikipedia
George Harry Webster		 17 Mar 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.: 17 Mar 2024 19:56 (but data presented dynamically)

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