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Sep 16, 1888 Lurgan, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Died on 30 Jun 1977 (aged 88)
Canadian politician
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About James Alexander Marshall
- James Alexander Marshall (September 16, 1888 – June 30, 1977) was a secretary, teacher and a Canadian federal politician.
- Born in Ireland, Marshall came to Canada in 1912. Marshall first ran for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada in the 1935 Canadian federal election.
- He ran as a candidate from the Social Credit Party in the Camrose electoral district.
- He would go on to defeat incumbent Member of Parliament William Thomas Lucas in a landslide victory to earn his 1st term in office. Marshall would run for re-election to his second term in the 1940 Canadian federal election, his plurality of votes would be reduced but he still won a comfortable majority.
- Marshall would win election to his final term in office in the 1945 Canadian federal election, he would retire from politics in 1949.
- He died in 1977 in Edmonton at a veterans' retirement home and was interred at Bashaw Cemetery in Bashaw, Alberta.
