Alfred Thomas "Fred" Davis (March 26, 1868 – July 24, 1945) was a farmer and a politician on the federal and provincial level in

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. He was born in 1868 in Mitchell, Ontario to William J. Davis and Tabitha Worth. He married Margaret Davidson in 1898.

Political career

Davis first began his political career as a municipal councilor in his home town of

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. He later became the towns Mayor. Davis ran for a seat in the

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in the

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as a Conservative. He defeated

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incumbent

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and former

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John Leedy in a hotly contested election. Davis served one term in the Alberta Legislature before retiring from provincial politics in 1921. Davis ran for the

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in the

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. He defeated incumbent Member of Parliament William Irvine. Davis was defeated a year later by Herbert Adshead in the

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. He died in Calgary after a long illness in 1945 and was buried in his hometown of Mitchell, Ontario.https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wuVkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KoENAAAAIBAJ&pg=3600%2C1792659

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Davis, Frederick 1868 births 1945 deaths Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Alberta Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs