Frederick Davis Shaw

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Frederick Davis Shaw (born: August 4, 1909, Cardston, Alberta - died: December 9, 1977) was a long serving Canadian federal politician.

Shaw first ran for the Canadian House of Commons in the 1940 federal election. He ran as a Social Credit candidate in the Red Deer electoral district. Shaw would win a hotly contested 4 way race to earn his first term in office. He would be re-elected in the 1945 federal election easily defeating 4 other candidates. Shaw would run for his third term in office in the 1949 federal election winning over 10,000 votes and retaining his district in a landslide.

Shaw would win his 4th term in office with another substantial but reduced plurality defeating 4 other candidates in the 1953 federal election. He would win his last term in office defeating Progressive Conservative candidate Harris Rogers in a landslide in the 1957 federal election. Parliament would be dissolved a year later forcing another federal election in 1958. Rogers and Shaw would face each other again this time with Harris defeating Shaw.

After his electoral defeat from office, Shaw would move to British Columbia. He attempted twice more to win another seat in by running as the Social Credit candidate in the 1962 federal election and a year later in the 1963 federal election. Both times he ran in the Okanagan Boundary electoral district against incumbent Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament David Vaughan Pugh and was defeated.