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Robert Davidson
Member of Parliament
for Stanstead
In office
October 1935 – August 1943
Preceded byJohn Thomas Hackett
Succeeded byJoseph-Armand Choquette
Personal details
BornRobert Greig Davidson
(1875-07-21)21 July 1875
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
Died3 August 1948(1948-08-03) (aged 73)
Political partyLiberal
Spouse(s)Anna Smillie
m. 18 October 1899
Professionfarmer

Robert Greig Davidson (21 July 1875 – 3 August 1948) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec and became a farmer.

Davidson attended high school in Sherbrooke and then St. Charles Borromeo College in Charlesbourg. He became a trustee of Stanstead Wesleyan College and director of the Western Townships Agricultural Association.

He was first elected to Parliament at the Stanstead riding in the 1935 general election. He was re-elected for a second term in 1940, but this was declared void in May 1943. Davidson lost the resulting by-election on 9 August 1943 to Joseph-Armand Choquette.

Electoral record

1935 Canadian federal election: Stanstead
Party Candidate Votes
Liberal Robert Davison 5,676
Conservative John Thomas Hackett 5,553
Reconstruction James Bert Reed 434
1940 Canadian federal election: Stanstead
Party Candidate Votes
Liberal Robert Davison 5,112
Independent Liberal Alphonse Girard 4,804
By-election on 9 August 1943

Election was declared void, 24 May 1943

Party Candidate Votes
Bloc populaire Joseph-Armand Choquette 6,661
Liberal Robert Davison 5,349
Co-operative Commonwealth Pierre Albandia Thomas 257

References

  1. ^ Normandin, A. L. (1941). The Canadian Parliamentary Guide.

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