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♂ Ernest Murray Brown
aliasErn Brown
Record
7599 · 8350

Type of record
Elected candidate ✓
Known but unelected candidate
Perennial candidate		 Deceased Performance: 50%
  ✓ ✗ ∑
Alberta 1 1 2
Birth 7 December 1890 → 133 years + 4 months ago
Lived 70 years + 3 months
First mandate 21 March 1940 → 84 years + 1 month ago
↳ at age 49 years + 3 months
Death 15 March 1961 → 63 years + 1 month ago
Exit → Death 16 years + 7 months after 7 August 1944
Special notes
None
 

Ernest Murray Brown (1890–1961)
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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 4 17 Z

Electoral history

Races 2  
Path points 3  
14 documented challengers
⊖ Joseph W. Adair  m 
⊖ John C. Bowen  m 
⊖ Ambrose U.G. Bury  m 
⊖ Herbert H. Crawford  m 
⊖ Edward P. Foster  m 
⊖ Nellie L. McClung  f 
⊖ Elmer E. Roper  m 
 		 ⊖ Adéodat Boileau  m 
⊖ John R. Boyle  m 
⊖ James K. Cornwall  m 
⊖ Albert F. Ewing  m 
⊖ Jeremiah W. Heffernan  m 
⊖ Andrew R. McLennan  m 
⊖ William Short  m 
 
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
✗
 Defeated but elected later to this legislature
Age
30
ILAB
 23/26 1,073 7.08% -4,216 Winner:
LIB
 5,289 34.91% Jeremiah W. Heffernan
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
✓
 → New to this legislature
Age
49
INDM
 1/2 2,379 50.71% +67 Loser:
SC
 2,312 49.29% Edward P. Foster

Service: 4 years 4 months 17 days (Oppo.)
Eligible: 6,056 Votes: 4,276 Participation: 70.61% Candidacies: 3
Provincial
10		 Alberta
8 August 1944
General
Instant runoff/Alt.
Gov't  SC  Majority
ID: 27907(F) — 3 May 2024 20:44 ET
—
 Incumbent did not run in this election →
Age
53		 Successor:
SC
 2,485 59.46% Howard G. Hammell

Online biographical references (3)

 Retrieved on
EN Find a Grave
Ernest Murray "Ern" Brown		 03 May 2024
EN Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Ernest M. Brown		 03 May 2024
EN Wikipedia
Ernest M. Brown		 03 May 2024

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Pub.: 22 Jun 2019 17:01
Rev.:  3 May 2024 20:42 (but data presented dynamically)

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