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♂ Clayton Adams
aliasClayton Adams
Record
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Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 100%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 0 1
Birth 9 January 1882 → 142 years + 3 months ago
Lived ± 79 years
First mandate 17 August 1948 → 75 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 66 years + 7 months
Death c. 1962 → 62 years ago
Exit → Death ± 9 years + 4 months after 4 August 1952
Special notes
None
 
Clayton Adams (1882–1962)
© 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 3 11 17 Z

Electoral history

Race 1  
Path points 2  
5 documented challengers
⊖ Louis W. Heard  m 
⊖ J. Percy Page  m 
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m 
 		 ⊖ Ernest C. Manning  m 
⊖ J. Harper Prowse  m 
 
Eligible: 84,391 Votes: 47,276 Participation: 56.02% Candidacies: 16
Provincial
11		 Alberta
17 August 1948
General
Single trans. vote (5)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27963(F) — 17 Oct 2021 20:19 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
66
SC
 5/16 946 2.05% -1,777 Loser:
INDM
 2,723 5.90% J. Percy Page

Service: 3 years 11 months 18 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 108,424 Votes: 57,256 Participation: 52.81% Candidacies: 29
Provincial
12		 Alberta
5 August 1952
General
Single trans. vote (7)
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 28014(F) — 29 Oct 2022 21:36 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
70		 Successor:
LIB
 875 1.68% Harold E. Tanner

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Non-standard link
Ernest G. Mardon, Austin A. Mardon & Joseph Harry Veres, Mapping Alberta's Political Leadership: A Comprehensive Account of Edmonton's MLA from 1905-2003 (Golden Meteorite Press, 2011), p. 11		 19 Mar 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Clayton Adams		 19 Mar 2024

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