Charles Holder Explained

Charles Garrett Holder
Birth Date:August 14, 1874
Death Place:Busby, Alberta
Birth Place:Battersea, Ontario
Office:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Constituency:St. Albert
Term Start:August 22, 1935
Term End:March 21, 1940
Predecessor:Omer St. Germain
Successor:Lionel Tellier
Term Start1:August 8, 1944
Term End1:August 17, 1948
Predecessor1:Lionel Tellier
Successor1:Lucien Maynard
Party:Social Credit
Occupation:politician

Charles Garrett Holder (1874-1962) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1940 and from 1944 to 1948 as a member of the Social Credit caucus.

Political career

Holder ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1935 general election, as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of St. Albert. He defeated incumbent Omer St. Germain to pick up the seat for his party.[1]

Holder ran for a second term in the 1940 general election. He was defeated by independent candidate Lionel Tellier on the fourth count.[2]

Holder was nominated to run for Social Credit again at a convention held in Morinville on February 9, 1944.[3] He ran in the general election held that year and won on the second vote count.[4] He retired from the assembly at dissolution in 1948.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: St. Albert Results 1935 Alberta general election . Alberta Heritage Community Foundation . April 16, 2010.
  2. Web site: St. Albert Results 1940 Alberta general election . Alberta Heritage Community Foundation . April 16, 2010.
  3. News: S.C. Candidate. The Lethbridge Herald. 9. February 9, 1944.
  4. Web site: St. Albert Results 1944 Alberta general election . Alberta Heritage Community Foundation . April 16, 2010.