Samuel Wesley Calvert | |
Birth Date: | 16 September 1867 |
Death Place: | Edmonton, Alberta |
Birth Place: | Caledon, Ontario |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
Constituency: | Victoria |
Term Start: | August 22, 1935 |
Term End: | March 21, 1940 |
Predecessor: | Peter Miskew |
Successor: | District abolished |
Party: | Social Credit |
Occupation: | soldier and politician |
Branch: | Non-Permanent Active Militia |
Allegiance: | Canada |
Rank: | Corporal |
Unit: | 19th Alberta Dragoons |
Samuel Wesley Calvert (September 16, 1867 – March 11, 1956) was a soldier and politician. He was mayor of Chipman, Alberta, and as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1940 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government.
Calvert was a corporal in the 19th Alberta Dragoons, a cavalry regiment of the Non-Permanent Active Militia.
Calvert began his political career by serving as Mayor of Chipman, Alberta.[1]
Calvert ran for a seat in the legislature in the 1935 Alberta general election as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Victoria. He defeated three other candidates with a large majority to pick up the seat for his party.[2]
Calvert did not run for a second term and retired at dissolution of the assembly in 1940.