August W. Flamme | |
Birth Date: | 1 January 1884 |
Death Place: | Bow Island, Alberta, Canada |
Birth Place: | Newton, Iowa, U.S.[1] |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
Constituency: | Cypress |
Term Start: | August 22, 1935 |
Term End: | March 21, 1940 |
Predecessor: | Perren Baker |
Successor: | Fay Jackson |
Party: | Social Credit |
Occupation: | politician |
August W. Flamme (January 1, 1884 - February 13, 1961) was 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.
Flamme first ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Social Credit candidate in the 1935 general election in the electoral district of Cypress. He defeated incumbent Perren Baker and two other candidates in a landslide to pick up the district for his party.[2] In the 1940 general election he was defeated by independent candidate Fay Jackson.[3] He died in 1961 at Bow Island Hospital in Bow Island, Alberta.[4]