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About Joseph S. McCallum
- Joseph Seeley McCallum (July 9, 1884 – July 22, 1945) was a politician from Alberta, Canada.
- He was born in Renfrew, Ontario.McCallum was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1913 Alberta general election.
- He defeated independent candidate Peter Savarich by a wide and comfortable margin to earn his first term in office.
- Throughout his career in the Legislature he served as a backbencher in the provincial Liberal government. McCallum stood for re-election in the 1917 Alberta general election.
- This time he defeated Conservative candidate Malcolm Gordon to earn his second term in office.
- In his bid for a third term in office in the 1921 Alberta general election, McCallum would be defeated by Archie Matheson a candidate from the United Farmers of Alberta. After his defeat from provincial politics McCallum made 2 attempts to gain a seat in the House of Commons of Canada.
- The first time he ran he was a candidate of Unknown affiliation but most likely ran for the Liberal Party of Canada in the Vegreville in the 1926 Canadian federal election.
- He was defeated by United Farmers of Alberta candidate Michael Luchovich.
- McCallum and Luchovich would face each other again in the 1935 Canadian federal election this time both men would be defeated by Social Credit candidate William Hayhurst.
- He died in Edmonton in 1945.
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