General Frederick Clayton
Casselman
Male
Canada
1885-10-02
Helmsville, Montana, United States of America
1941-03-20
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada


About

He was a soldier, barrister, teacher, as well as a Canadian municipal and federal level politician.Casselman served a long career as an Edmonton municipal politician, he served as a public school trustee from 1928 to 1937. In 1937 he resigned his trustee seat and ran for alderman winning a seat. He held his aldermanic post until he resigned in 1940 to run for the House of Commons of Canada.

Casselman ran in the 1940 Canadian federal election in the Edmonton East as a candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada. He defeated incumbent Member of Parliament Orvis A. Kennedy. Casselman died a year into his first term in office on March 20, 1941, at age 55. His wife Cora Taylor Casselman won election in his place in the subsequent by-election.



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Archive statistics 1915 - 1922
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Tournaments Alberta Championships - 1922 Alberta Championships - 1915

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