- William Ives
William Carlos Ives (born 1873
Quebec died 1950Alberta ) was a former provincial politician and provincial Supreme Court Justice.Early life
William Carlos Ives was born in Quebec in 1873. His family moved to the Alberta District in the
Northwest Territories shortly after he was born. When he reached his teenage years he left home to work his first job as a cowhand. He left the territories to attendMcGill University and graduated in 1899. Ives became a lawyer inMontreal shortly after graduating and worked in the city for two years before moving back to Alberta.cite web|url=http://www.albertasource.ca/lawcases/criminal/powlettuofa/powlettuofa_people_ives.htm|title=Justice William Ives|publisher=Alberta Heritage Foundation|accessdate=2008-07-23]Political career
Ives moved to the town of
Lethbridge in 1901 and joined a legal firm partnering with established lawyer Charles Conybeare.cite news|url=http://www.canada.com/national/features/raiseareader/downloads/07_RAR%20Questions%2007story.pdf|title=Law Society Marks 100 years of contributions to Alberta|author=David Finch|publisher=Calgary Herald|page=B2|date=November 13 ,2007 ] He soon became interested in provincial politics and joined the Conservatives.Ives ran twice as a candidate for the Alberta provincial Conservative party. He ran for the first time in the Lethbridge electoral district in the 1905 Alberta general election. He was defeated by former Northwest Territories MLA
Leverett DeVeber in a hotly contested race.cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/database/maps_choice.asp?Year=1905&Constit=Lethbridge|title=Lethbridge electoral district results 1905 general election.|publisher=Alberta Heritage Foundation|accessdate=2008-07-23]Ives ran for a second time in the
Lethbridge City electoral district. He again finished second, this time in a three way race ahead of incumbent Labor MLADonald McNabb but was defeated by Liberal candidateWilliam Ashbury Buchanan . Ives was unable to expand his popular vote garnering the exact total as his run for office in 1905.cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/database/maps_choice.asp?Year=1909&Constit=Lethbridge_City|title=Lethbridge City electoral district results 1909 general election.|publisher=Alberta Heritage Foundation|accessdate=2008-07-23]Judicial career
Ives left his practice in Lethbridge moving to
Calgary in 1914 after he was appointed to be a judge for theSupreme Court of Alberta . He retired from his judicial career in 1944. Early in his career he became known by the nickname of the "Cowboy Judge".cite book|title=Uncertain Justice: Canadian Women and Capital Punishment 1754-1953|first=Frank|last=Greenwood|coauthors=Beverley Boissery|isbn=1550023446|pages=189|publisher=Dundurn Press Ltd|year=2000]Ives had proceeded over the trial of scandalous seduction trial of United Farmers Premier
John Brownlee . After the jury verdict came down, Ives threw out the jury decision to award Vivian MacMillan and her father the collective sum of $15,000.00. The trial scandalized the United Farmers government and helped lead to its defeat in the 1935 Alberta general election.cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,787888,00.html|title=Services After Seduction|publisher=Time Magazine|date=July 16 ,1934 |accessdate=2008-07-23]Late life
After retiring from the judiciary Ives remained at the Cochrane Ranch just out side of Calgary. He would die in 1950.
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