Angus James Morrison
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Angus James Morrison was provincial-level politician in Alberta
Alberta
Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

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Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

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Morrison was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1940 Alberta general election
Alberta general election, 1940
The Alberta general election of 1940 was the ninth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada, was held on March 21, 1940 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta....

 defeating incumbent Joseph Unwin
Joseph Unwin
Joseph Henry Unwin was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada.-1935 election:Unwin ran as a candidate for the Alberta Social Credit Party in the 1935 Alberta general election...

 in a hotly contested race. Unwin had been tried and convicted of libel and inciting murder, but his conviction had been reversed, in the Bankers Toadies trial
Bankers' Toadies incident
The Bankers' Toadies incident took place in 1937 in Alberta, Canada when a pamphlet was discovered advocating the "extermination" of nine men identified as "Bankers' Toadies"...

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Morrison served one term in office and did not run again in 1944.
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