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♂ Edward Leslie Gray
aliasEdward Gray
Record
24265 · 8322

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 1 2
Birth 8 April 1895 → 129 years ago
Lived 97 years + 2 months
First mandate 7 October 1937 → 86 years + 6 months ago
↳ at age 42 years + 5 months
Death 13 June 1992 → 31 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 52 years + 2 months after 20 March 1940
Special notes
None
 
Edward Leslie Gray (1895–1992)
© Photo Legislative Assembly, Alberta — 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 2 5 12 Z

Leadership role

  Duration
# Legislature Party M Int Role Age Dates y m d
1. AB 8–9
LIB
 1 Party leader 42–46 04 Jun 1937 — 18 Apr 1941 3 10 14

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
4 documented challengers
⊖ Wilson E. Cain  m 
⊖ Jan Lakeman  m 
 		 ⊖ Joseph A. Clarke  m 
⊖ Rice Sheppard  m 
 
Eligible: 49,212 Votes: 31,099 Participation: 63.19% Candidacies: 5
Provincial
8		 Alberta
7 October 1937
By-Election
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27835(F) — 6 Mar 2022 12:28 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature (Party leader)
Age
42
LIB
 1/5 17,788 57.20% +7,788 Loser:
IND
 10,000 32.16% Joseph A. Clarke

Service: 2 years 5 months 13 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 5,596 Votes: 3,943 Participation: 70.46% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
9		 Alberta
21 March 1940
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27842(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
44
INDM
 2/2 1,762 46.41% -273 Winner:
SC
 2,035 53.59% Wilson E. Cain

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Edward L. Gray		 03 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Edward Leslie Gray		 03 May 2024

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