Name John McColl Spouse Gene McColl | Service/branch British Army Rank General | |
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Role Lieutenant Governor of Jersey Office Lieutenant Governor of Jersey since 2011 Battles and wars The Troubles, Sierra Leone Civil War, Kosovo War, Bosnian War, Iraq War, War in Afghanistan Similar People Elizabeth II, David Richards - Baron Ric, Hamid Karzai, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Jumma Kasimov | ||
John Arthur McColl (February 21, 1875 – April 19, 1933) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He was born at Maxville, Glengarry County, Ontario.
McColl, running as a Liberal, was elected to the Alberta legislature for the first time in the 1913 Alberta general election. He defeated Conservative candidate W.D. Bentley by a comfortable margin to win the new Acadia district.
McColl ran for re-election in the 1917 Alberta general election, he retained his seat in a 3 way race that saw the voter turn out in Acadia 4 times higher than the previous election. In that election he defeated future MLA Lorne Proudfoot, running as an independent candidate, who came in a distant 3rd place.
McColl did not run in the 1921 provincial election, and Proudfoot was elected to represent the constituency.