Cora Taylor Casselman
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Cora Taylor Casselman (born: October 18, 1888 — died: September 6, 1964) was a Canadian federal politician.
Casselman was elected to represented the electoral district of Edmonton East in the Canadian House of Commons from 1941 to 1945. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, she was the fourth woman ever elected to the House of Commons and the first from the province of Alberta.
Casselman was elected to the House in a byelection on June 2, 1941, succeeding her late husband Frederick Casselman.
She served until 1945, when she was defeated in the 1945 federal election by Social Credit candidate Patrick Harvey Ashby.
She later stood as an Alberta Liberal Party candidate in Edmonton in the 1955 provincial election in Alberta, but was not elected.
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| Preceded by Frederick Clayton Casselman |
Member of Parliament Edmonton East 1941-1945 |
Succeeded by Patrick Harvey Ashby |
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