James Lawrence Owens (December 30, 1899 – September 27, 1960) was a politician from
Alberta
Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...
, Canada. He served in the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is the deliberative assembly of the province of Alberta, Canada. It sits in the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton. Since 2012 the Legislative Assembly has had 87 members, elected first past the post f ...
from 1955 until his death in 1960 as a member of the Social Credit caucus in government.
Political career
Owens first ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the
1955 general election as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Didsbury. He defeated Coalition candidate Ben Brown by a few hundred votes.
In the
1959 general election, Owens defeated
Progressive Conservative candidate Douglas Munn and a Liberal candidate.
Owens died of a heart attack on September 28, 1960, while still in office.
References
External links
Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
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1960 deaths
Alberta Social Credit Party MLAs
American emigrants to Canada
1899 births
20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta