James McCrie Douglas
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| 19th Mayor of Edmonton | |
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In office December 9, 1929 – November 11, 1931 |
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| Preceded by | Ambrose Bury |
| Succeeded by | Dan Knott |
| Alderman on the Edmonton City Council | |
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In office December 10, 1923 – December 13, 1926 |
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In office November 12, 1941 – November 2, 1949 |
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| Member of the Canadian House of Commons for Strathcona | |
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In office October 20, 1909 – December 6, 1921 |
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| Preceded by | Wilbert McIntyre |
| Succeeded by | Daniel Webster Warner |
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| Born | February 5, 1867 Middleville, Lanark County, Ontario |
| Died | March 16, 1950 (aged 83) Edmonton, Alberta |
| Political party | Liberal Party of Canada, Unionist Party, Conservative Party of Canada, Civic Government Association, Citizens Committee |
| Spouse(s) | Mary Cameron Bickerton |
| Profession | Businessman |
| Religion | Presbyterian |
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James McCrie Douglas (February 5, 1867 – March 16, 1950) was a politician in Alberta, Canada, a mayor of Edmonton, and a member of the Canadian House of Commons.
Douglas was born February 5, 1867 in Middleville, Lanark County, Ontario, the son of Rev James Douglas, a Scottish Presbyterian minister and Margaret, née Blyth. He was educated in Winnipeg, and came to Strathcona, Alberta in 1894, where he opened a mercantile business with his brother R. B. Douglas.
On November 1, 1894 he married Mary Cameron Bickerton.
James Douglas was elected as an alderman to the Strathcona city council. He entered federal politics in 1909 when Wilbert McIntyre, the recently elected Liberal Member of Parliament for Strathcona, died. Douglas, running as a Liberal, was the only candidate in the ensuing by-election, and was acclaimed to the Canadian House of Commons. He was re-elected as a Liberal in the 1911 election.
In 1917, Prime Minister Robert Laird Borden introduced conscription as a means of winning the First World War, and appealed to all MPs who supported this move to come together under the banner of the "Unionist Party". Douglas was one of many MPs to leave Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal caucus and join this new alliance party, and was re-elected as a government candidate in the 1917 election. Once the war ended, he was one of a handful of former Liberals to join Arthur Meighen's new "National Liberal and Conservative Party" (commonly known as the Conservative Party). He was defeated running under this banner in the 1921 election by Progressive candidate Daniel Webster Warner.
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