Daniel Harcourt Galbraith (1878 - ) was a provincial politician from 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...

, Canada

Canada

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. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1921 to 1930 sitting with the United Farmers caucus in government.

Early life

Galbraith was born in 1878 in Guelph

Guelph, Ontario

Guelph is a city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada. Known as "The Royal City", Guelph is roughly east of Waterloo and west of downtown Toronto at the intersection of Highway 6 and Highway 7. It is the seat of Wellington County, but is politically independent of it...

, Ontario

Ontario

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. His grand-father was Daniel Galbraith

Daniel Galbraith

Daniel Galbraith was an Ontario farmer and political figure. He represented Lanark North in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1872 and in the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal member from 1872 to 1879.He was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1813 and came to Lanark County with his...

 former Member of Parliament. He took his post secondary education at Ontario Agriculture College. He met his wife while attending school and married her. They settled in the Vulcan

Vulcan, Alberta

Vulcan is a town located midway between the cities of Calgary and Lethbridge on Highway 23, in the prairies of southern Alberta, Canada. The population of the town was 1,940 in 2006, and the population of the county, which is also named Vulcan, was 3,718. The town's economy is mainly tourism and...

, 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...

 area in 1904. They had a son Doug Galbraith. Galbraith was good friends with former Prime Ministers Richard Bennett

R. B. Bennett

Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, PC, KC was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist. He served as the 11th Prime Minister of Canada from August 7, 1930, to October 23, 1935, during the worst of the Great Depression years...

 and Arthur Meighen

Arthur Meighen

Arthur Meighen, PC, QC was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served two terms as the ninth Prime Minister of Canada: from July 10, 1920 to December 29, 1921; and from June 29 to September 25, 1926. He was the first Prime Minister born after Confederation, and the only one to represent a riding...

Political career

Galbraith ran for a seat to the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

 in the 1917 Canadian federal election

Canadian federal election, 1917

The 1917 Canadian federal election was held on December 17, 1917, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 13th Parliament of Canada. Described by historian Michael Bliss as the "most bitter election in Canadian history", it was fought mainly over the issue of conscription...

. He ran in a four way race in the electoral district of Bow River

Bow River (electoral district)

Bow River was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1968 and from 1979 to 1988.This riding was created in 1914 from Macleod riding...

 as a Non-partisan League

Alberta Non-Partisan League

The Alberta Non-Partisan League was a minor provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. The league changed its name to the Non-Partisan Political League of Canada: Alberta Branch in 1917 as it prepared to move into federal politics...

 candidate. He finished third losing to Howard Halladay

Howard Hadden Halladay

Howard Hadden Halladay was a farmer, insurance agent and Canadian federal politician. He served as a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1921 sitting as a Unionist candidate in government...

.

Galbraith ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1921 Alberta general election

Alberta general election, 1921

The Alberta general election of 1921 was the fifth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on July 18, 1921 to elect members to the 5th Alberta Legislative Assembly....

. He defeated former Liberal MLA John Glendenning

John M. Glendenning

John Murray Glendenning was a politician from Alberta, Canada.Glendenning first ran for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 Alberta general election in the new Nanton electoral district...

 in a hotly contested two way race to hold the seat for his party.

Galbraith ran for a second term in office in the 1926 Alberta general election

Alberta general election, 1926

The Alberta general election of 1926 was the sixth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on June 28, 1926 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The writs of election were issued on May 10, 1926 allowing for an election period of 40 days.After Herbert...

. He increased his popular vote slightly from the last election to win the three way race.

External links

• Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing