Robert Campbell (Alberta politician)
- Robert Campbell (Alberta politician)
Robert Eldon Campbell was a politician from Alberta, Canada.
Campbell ran for the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1913 Alberta general election. He ran as a Conservative candidate and defeated High profile MLA Charles M. O'Brien in an upset victory. O'Brien at the time was leader of the Social Party of Alberta. The race between Campbell and O'Brien was decided by a very close margin of 81 votes.
Campbell was acclaimed to a second term in office in the 1917 Alberta general election. He was acclaimed under Section 38 of the "Elections Act" that stipulates that a member of the Legislative Assembly may not face a contested election and be automatically returned to his district while he is fighting overseas in World War I.
Campbell left provincial politics at the end of his second term in 1921, and attempted to run for Federal politics in the 1921 Canadian federal election as the Conservative Candidate in the federal electoral district of Edmonton West. He finished a very distant 3rd place behind Progressive candidate Donald Kennedy and Liberal Frank Oliver.
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* [http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
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