Arthur Ebbett

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| name = Arthur Wellesley Ebbett

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| birth_place ={{Birth date|1866|1|3}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1929|4|2|1866|1|3}}

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| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

| constituency = Vermilion

| term_start = June 7, 1917

| term_end = July 18, 1921

| predecessor = Arthur Sifton

| successor = Richard Reid

| party = Liberal

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| occupation = lawyer and politician

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Arthur Wellesley Ebbett (January 3, 1866 – April 2, 1929) was a lawyer and a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1917 to 1921 sitting with the Liberal caucus in government.

Political career

Ebbett ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election that was to be held on November 19, 1917, as the Liberal candidate in the Vermilion electoral district following the resignation of the Premier Arthur Lewis Sifton on October 12, 1917. He was nominated to run under the party banner at a convention held on November 2, 1917.{{cite news|title=Ebbett Candidate Vermilion Riding|date=November 2, 1917 |publisher=Lethbridge Daily Herald|page=14|work=Vol X No 274}} He was acclaimed on nomination day held November 15, 1917, when no other candidates came forward.{{cite news|title=Ebbett Acclaimed|date=November 15, 1917 |publisher=Lethbridge Daily Herald|page=5|work=Vol X No 280}}

Ebbett ran for a second term in office in the 1921 Alberta general election. He was defeated in a landslide by United Farmers candidate Richard Reid.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1921&Constit=Vermilion | title=Vermilion Anne results 1921| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=April 1, 2010}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20061005111012/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]

Category:Alberta Liberal Party MLAs

Category:1866 births

Category:1929 deaths

Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta