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♂ Edward Peter Foster
aliasEdward Foster
Record
20662 · 8349

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 1 2
Birth 21 March 1896 → 128 years + 1 month ago
Lived 66 years + 2 months
First mandate 22 August 1935 → 88 years + 8 months ago
↳ at age 39 years + 5 months
Death 9 June 1962 → 61 years + 10 months ago
Exit → Death 22 years + 2 months after 20 March 1940
Special notes
None
 
Edward Peter Foster (1896–1962)
© Photo 1935 Provincial Archives of 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 4 6 28 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 2  
2 documented challengers
⊖ Ernest M. Brown  m 
 		 ⊖ Austin B. Claypool  m 
 
Eligible: 5,136 Votes: 4,365 Participation: 84.99% Candidacies: 4
Provincial
8		 Alberta
22 August 1935
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27790(F) — 6 Mar 2022 10:22 ET
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
39
SC
 1/4 2,731 64.24% +2,121 Loser:
UFA
 610 14.35% Austin B. Claypool

Service: 4 years 6 months 27 days (Gov't)
Eligible: 6,538 Votes: 4,872 Participation: 74.52% Candidacies: 2
Provincial
9		 Alberta
21 March 1940
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27850(F) — 26 Jul 2021 09:58 ET
✗
 Defeated incumbent →
Age
44
SC
 2/2 2,312 49.29% -67 Winner:
INDM
 2,379 50.71% Ernest M. Brown

Online biographical references (2)

 Retrieved on
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Edward P. Foster		 03 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Edward P. Foster		 03 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
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