Preceded by Donald Macleod Name William Hayes Political party Social Credit | Constituency Stony Plain Succeeded by Cornelia Wood | |
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Died April 2, 1939(1939-04-02) (aged 59)
Stony Plain, Alberta. | ||
William Edgar Hayes (April 14, 1879 – April 2, 1939) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Social Credit caucus from 1935 until his death in 1939.
Political career
Hayes ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1935 Alberta general election. He swept to power with almost 60% of the popular vote in the Stony Plain electoral district. He defeated three other candidates in the race including United Farmers incumbent Donald Macleod who finished a distant third.
Hayes died on April 2, 1939 from a reported heart seizure late into his first term in office at his home in Stony Plain, Alberta. He was buried in a cemetery in Edmonton. A large portion of the Social Credit caucus turned out including Premier William Aberhart.