August Flamme
{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image =Flamme,August.png
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| name = August W. Flamme
| caption =
| birth_date = {{birth date|1884|1|1}}
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1961|2|13|1884|1|1}}
| death_place =Bow Island, Alberta, Canada
| birth_place = Newton, Iowa, U.S.Canadian Parliamentary Guide 1939
| residence =
| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
| constituency = Cypress
| term_start = August 22, 1935
| term_end = March 21, 1940
| predecessor = Perren Baker
| successor = Fay Jackson
| party = Social Credit
| religion =
| occupation = politician
| spouse =
}}
August W. Flamme (January 1, 1884 – February 13, 1961) was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1940 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government.
Political career
Flamme first ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Social Credit candidate in the 1935 general election in the electoral district of Cypress. He defeated incumbent Perren Baker and two other candidates in a landslide to pick up the district for his party.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1935&Constit=Cypress| title=Cypress Official Results 1935 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | access-date=March 14, 2010}} In the 1940 general election he was defeated by independent candidate Fay Jackson.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1940&Constit=Cypress| title=Cypress Official Results 1940 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | access-date=March 14, 2010}} He died in 1961 at Bow Island Hospital in Bow Island, Alberta.{{cite news |title=Long Time Resident Dies |newspaper=Bow Island Graphic |date=February 23, 1961 |page=1 }}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024650/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
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Category:Alberta Social Credit Party MLAs
Category:People from Newton, Iowa
Category:American emigrants to Canada
Category:People from the County of Forty Mile No. 8
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta