George E. LeRoy Hudson (August 4, 1883 – January 14, 1952) was a politician from

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, Canada. Hudson was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in the

1913 Alberta general election The 1913 Alberta general election was held in March 1913. The writ was dropped on 25 March 1913 and election day was held 17 April 1913 to elect 56 members to the 3rd Alberta Legislature. Elections in two northern districts took place on 30 July ...

, winning the new Wainwright electoral district for the Conservative party in a hotly contested election over

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candidate and first Mayor of the Town of Wainwright Henry Yale Pawling in which he won by less than 100 votes. Hudson was re-elected to his second term in the Legislature in the

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by acclamation under section 38 of the ''Election Act'' that stipulated that Members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta who went to fight overseas in

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would not face an election in their districts. In the

1921 Alberta general election The 1921 Alberta general election was held on July 18, 1921, to elect members to the 5th Alberta Legislative Assembly. It was one of only five times that Alberta has changed governments. The Liberal Party, which had governed the province since it ...

Hudson was defeated in a landslide by John Russell Love, a candidate from the

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. He attempted to regain his seat and faced Love again in the

1926 Alberta general election The 1926 Alberta general election was held on June 28, 1926, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The United Farmers of Alberta government that had first been elected in 1921 was re-elected, taking a majority of the seats in t ...

re-gaining over 600 votes over his 1921 total but was still defeated by a wide plurality.

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George Edgar Leroy Hudson
– Canadian Great War Project Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Canadian military personnel of World War I 1883 births 1952 deaths {{alberta-politician-stub