John Calhoun (Alberta politician)

Infobox Politician (general)
name= John C. Calhoun


imagesize=300
title= Alderman on the Edmonton City Council
term_start= May 1906
term_end= December 10, 1906
birth_date= 1869
birth_place= Albert County, New Brunswick
profession= Hotelier, rancher

John C. Calhoun (born 1869) was a politician in Alberta, Canada and a municipal councillor in Edmonton.

Biography

Calhoun was born in 1869 in Albert County, New Brunswick, where he remained until he moved to British Columbia in 1885. He stayed there for ten years before moving to Alberta to engage in ranching and fur trading. Early in the twentieth century, he moved to Edmonton where he worked in real estate and horse trading. In 1906, he built the King Edward Hotel, which would become Edmonton's leading hotel after a 1910 expansion.

Calhoun made his first bid for elected office in the 1905 election, when finished ninth out of ten candidates for alderman. However, on May 7, 1906, John R. Boyle resigned from Edmonton City Council, and Calhoun was elected to finish his term (which ran until December of that year). He did not seek re-election, but did run in the 1907 election, once he was a year removed from office. He finished ninth of twelve, and did not re-enter politics thereafter.

In 1940, he sold his hotel and returned to British Columbia, where he remained until his death.

John Calhoun was a long-time member of the Independent Order of Foresters.

References

* [http://www.epl.ca/Elections/results/EPLBiographiesLetter.cfm?id=C Edmonton Public Library biography of John Calhoun]
* [http://www.edmonton.ca/CityGov/ElectionHistory/Members%20of%20Council%20Biographies.doc City of Edmonton biography of John Calhoun]