Norman B. James Explained

Norman Bloomfield James
Birth Date:August 4, 1872
Birth Place:Wandsworth, England
Office:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Constituency:Acadia
Term Start:August 22, 1935
Term End:March 21, 1940
Predecessor:Lorne Proudfoot
Successor:District Abolished
Constituency1:Edmonton
Term Start1:March 21, 1940
Term End1:August 17, 1948
Predecessor1:Samuel Barnes, Edward Gray, Walter Morrish, David Mullen and Gerald O'Connor
Successor1:Clayton Adams, Lou Heard and James Prowse
Party:Social Credit
Alongside1:David Duggan (1940-1942) Hugh John MacDonald (1940-1944) Ernest Manning (1940-1948) John Page Elmer Roper (1942-1948) William J. Williams (1944-1948)

Norman Bloomfield James (August 4, 1872 – December 12, 1963) was a farmer and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1948 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government.

Early life

Norman Bloomfield James was born on August 4, 1872, in Wandsworth, England. He attended post secondary education at Aberystwyth University. Bloomfield moved to Canada in 1893. He settled near Youngstown, Alberta and began farming.[1]

Political career

James ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Acadia in the 1935 Alberta general election. He defeated incumbent Lorne Proudfoot and another candidate with a landslide majority to pick up the seat for his party.[2]

The 1939 boundary redistribution saw the electoral district of Acadia merged with Coronation to form Acadia-Coronation. James decided to run for re-election in the electoral district of Edmonton in the 1940 Alberta general election. James was returned winning the third place seat out of five.[3]

James ran for a third term in office in the 1944 Alberta general election. He barely hung onto his seat winning in the final vote count.[4]

James retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the assembly in 1948.

He published "The Autobiography of a Nobody" in 1948.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: 199–200. Social Discredit. McGill Queen's University Press. 0-7735-2010-4. Janine Stingel. 2000.
  2. Web site: Acadia Official Results 1935 Alberta general election . Alberta Heritage Community Foundation . March 14, 2010.
  3. Web site: Edmonton Official Results 1940 Alberta general election . Alberta Heritage Community Foundation . March 14, 2010.
  4. Web site: Edmonton Official Results 1944 Alberta general election . Alberta Heritage Community Foundation . March 14, 2010.