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.
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.