Robert Fair (September 4, 1891 – November 1, 1954) was a
Canadian
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farmer and politician.
Fair was born in Keelognes, parish of
Turlough,
County Mayo,
Ireland
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. Fair first ran for the
House of Commons
The House of Commons is the name for the elected lower house of the bicameral parliaments of the United Kingdom and Canada. In both of these countries, the Commons holds much more legislative power than the nominally upper house of parliament. T ...
in the
1935 federal election as the
Social Credit
Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed by C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them. To combat what he ...
candidate in
Battle River; he defeated incumbent
Henry Elvins Spencer. He remained in office until his death on November 1, 1954.
References
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* http://www.nettyprofessor.com/genealogy/Report006WebCards/ps01_478.htm
1891 births
1954 deaths
Irish emigrants to Canada
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Alberta
Social Credit Party of Canada MPs
New Democracy (Canada) candidates in the 1940 Canadian federal election
New Democracy (Canada) MPs
Politicians from County Mayo
Farmers from Alberta
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