David Lush

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| image =D Lush portrait.png

| imagesize = 180px|

| name = David Lush

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| birth_date = December 31, 1887

| death_date = {{death date and age|1960|11|8|1887|12|1}}

| death_place = Empress, Alberta

| birth_place = Guelph, Ontario

| residence =

| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

| constituency = Empress

| term_start = August 22, 1935

| term_end = March 21, 1940

| predecessor = William Smith

| successor = District Abolished

| party = Social Credit

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| occupation =

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David Lush (December 31, 1887 – November 8, 1960) 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.{{cite book| author = Pierre G. Normandin|author2=A. Léopold Normandin| title = Guide Parlementaire Canadien| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=m7sKAQAAIAAJ| year = 1938| publisher = P. G. Normandin }}{{cite news |title=David Lush Dies at 72 |newspaper=Calgary Albertan |date=Nov 10, 1960 |page=2 }}

Political career

Lush ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Empress for the 1935 Alberta general election. He defeated incumbent William Smith and other candidate with a landslide majority to pick up the seat for his party.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1935&Constit=Empress| title=Empress Official Results 1935 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | access-date=April 29, 2010}}

Empress merged with Bow Valley in the 1939 boundary redistribution to form Bow Valley-Empress. Lush retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the assembly in 1940.

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