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You, my constituents, are to decide whether the Prince Albert seat in the House of
Commons is a chattel to be passed from hand to hand at the whim of a chosen few, or whether the electors themselves are to have a voice as to who shall represent them at Ottawa. You are to decide whether the ballot is
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Burgess ran as an independent candidate and argued that
Mackenzie King was appropriating the riding of Prince Albert and assuming the compliance of its residents. In an election address, he said:
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to be loaded so that the
Liberal candidate is presented on the ballot with all his rank and title while the Independent candidate is robbed of the Military Cross which he won in France.
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to power, Burgess moved to Ottawa to take up a position as private secretary to the new
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Burgess was defeated in the
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The Prince Albert by-election would normally have been a formality and the
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was persuaded to step aside in order to create a vacancy for King.
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and needed to win in a by-election in order to re-enter the
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Canadian federal by-election, February 15, 1926
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Independent candidates for the
Canadian House of Commons
442:"Prince Albert, Saskatchewan (1908-09-17 – 1988-09-30)"
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defeated
Mackenzie King's government and brought the
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Mackenzie King had suffered a personal defeat in the
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425:"David L. Burgess Ottawa Election Candidate Dies"
494:Saskatchewan candidates for Member of Parliament
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28:(January 28, 1891 – November 30, 1960) was a
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175:and served in that position for four years.
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489:Canadian recipients of the Military Cross
235:resignation on January 15, 1926
125:declined to enter a candidate as did the
35:who, in 1926, was the sole challenger to
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164:. He remained in Ottawa as a
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396:"David Luther Burgess"
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102:losing his riding of
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71:and held the rank of
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20:David Luther Burgess
509:People from Vaughan
429:Winnipeg Free Press
16:Canadian politician
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372:The Ottawa Citizen
327:Total valid votes
233:Charles McDonald's
123:Conservative Party
77:Royal Flying Corps
65:Kleinburg, Ontario
366:The Burgess Story
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479:1960 deaths
474:1891 births
377:28 February
306:Independent
162:Robert Weir
85:DH-4 bomber
83:flying the
69:World War I
45:by-election
30:World War I
468:Categories
349:References
251:Candidate
239:1926-01-15
221:1926-02-15
104:York North
73:lieutenant
33:flying ace
59:Biography
452:24 March
405:19 March
265:Elected
63:Born in
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273:Liberal
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331:10,219
248:Party
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180:Ottawa
336:100.0
318:22.50
315:2,299
288:+26.3
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