Alban MacLellan explained

Alban Erskine MacLellan
Birth Date:9 February 1902
Death Place:Elnora, Alberta, Canada
Birth Place:Indian River, Prince Edward Island, Canada
Office:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Constituency:Innisfail
Term Start:August 22, 1935
Term End:March 21, 1940
Predecessor:Donald Cameron
Successor:District Abolished
Party:Social Credit
Occupation:railway foreman and politician

Alban Erskine MacLellan (February 9, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was a railway foreman and a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1940 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government.

Political career

MacLellan ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Innisfail for the 1935 Alberta general election. He won a strong first ballot majority defeating three other candidates to pick up the seat for his party.[1]

The 1940 boundary redistribution saw the Innisfail electoral district get abolished, along with other districts whose representatives had gone against the Social Credit party line.[2] MacLellan ran for nomination as an Independent Progressive candidate and was nominated at a convention on July 19, 1939.[3] He stood for a second term in the 1940 Alberta general election in the Red Deer provincial electoral district and was defeated finishing in last place on the first vote count and getting eliminated. He lost to former member of Parliament and Independent candidate Alfred Speakman.[4]

MacLellan made an attempt to run for a seat to the House of Commons of Canada in the federal electoral district of Red Deer in the 1945 Canadian federal election as a Co-operative Commonwealth candidate. He was defeated by incumbent Frederick Shaw finishing in third place in the field of five candidates.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Innisfail Results 1935 Alberta general election . Alberta Heritage Community Foundation . April 16, 2010.
  2. News: Off The Map, Alta. Bill Would Unseat Rebel Social Crediters. Winnipeg Free Press. February 25, 1939. Vol 45 No 128. 28.
  3. News: Ex-S.C. Member Gets Nomination As Progressive. The Lethbridge Herald. July 20, 1939. Vol XXXII No 185. 14.
  4. Web site: Red Deer Results 1940 Alberta general election . Alberta Heritage Community Foundation . April 16, 2010.
  5. Web site: Red Deer Election Results. June 11, 1945. Parliament of Canada. May 1, 2010.