Norman B. James
{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
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| imagesize =180px |
| name = Norman Bloomfield James
| caption =
| birth_date = August 4, 1872
| death_date ={{Death date and age|1963|12|12|1872|8|4}}
| death_place =
| birth_place = Wandsworth, England
| residence =
| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
| constituency = Acadia
| term_start = August 22, 1935
| term_end = March 21, 1940
| predecessor = Lorne Proudfoot
| successor = District Abolished
| constituency1 = Edmonton
| term_start1 = March 21, 1940
| term_end1 = August 17, 1948
| predecessor1 = Samuel Barnes, Edward Gray, Walter Morrish, David Mullen and Gerald O'Connor
| successor1 = Clayton Adams, Lou Heard and James Prowse
| party = Social Credit
| alongside1 = David Duggan (1940-1942) Hugh John MacDonald (1940-1944) Ernest Manning (1940-1948) John Page Elmer Roper (1942-1948) William J. Williams (1944-1948)
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Norman Bloomfield James (August 4, 1872 – December 12, 1963) was a farmer and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1948 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government.
Early life
Norman Bloomfield James was born on August 4, 1872, in Wandsworth, England. He attended post secondary education at Aberystwyth University. Bloomfield moved to Canada in 1893. He settled near Youngstown, Alberta and began farming.{{cite book|pages=199–200|title=Social Discredit|publisher=McGill Queen's University Press|isbn=0-7735-2010-4|author=Janine Stingel|year=2000}}
Political career
James ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Acadia in the 1935 Alberta general election. He defeated incumbent Lorne Proudfoot and another 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=Acadia| title=Acadia Official Results 1935 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=March 14, 2010}}
The 1939 boundary redistribution saw the electoral district of Acadia merged with Coronation to form Acadia-Coronation. James decided to run for re-election in the electoral district of Edmonton in the 1940 Alberta general election. James was returned winning the third place seat out of five.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1940&Constit=Edmonton| title=Edmonton Official Results 1940 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=March 14, 2010}}
James ran for a third term in office in the 1944 Alberta general election. He barely hung onto his seat winning in the final vote count.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1940&Constit=Edmonton| title=Edmonton Official Results 1944 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=March 14, 2010}}
James retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the assembly in 1948.
He published "The Autobiography of a Nobody" in 1948.
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=James |first1=Norman B. |title=The autobiography of a nobody |date=1947 |publisher=J. M. Dent & Sons |location=Toronto |url=https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofn0000unse_g6r2 |language=en}}
External links
- {{AlbertaMLAbio|ID=0271}}
- [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:Alumni of Aberystwyth University
Category:British emigrants to Canada
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta