James Delamere Lafferty

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Dr. James D. Lafferty
Dr. James D. Lafferty

Dr. James Delamere Lafferty was a doctor and politician. He was born in Ontario around 1853 and died in 1920. He served one term as the fifth mayor of the town of Calgary, Alberta from January 20, 1890 to January 19, 1891.

Lafferty graduated from Queen's University in 1871. Dr. Lafferty first practised medicine in Ontario before moving to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1881. He then moved on to Calgary in 1885. He acted as the first president of the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons and Chief Surgeon for the Canadian Pacific Railway.

He ran for the Liberal Party in the Alberta riding of the 1887 Canadian federal election, but lost out to Conservative Donald Watson Davis.

Preceded by
Daniel Webster Marsh		 Mayor of Calgary
1890-1891		 Succeeded by
James A. Reilly
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George Murdoch • George Clift King • Arthur Edwin Shelton • Daniel Webster Marsh • James Delamere Lafferty • James A. Reilly • Alexander Lucas • Wesley Fletcher Orr • Alexander McBride • Wesley Fletcher Orr (again) • Arthur Leslie Cameron • James A. Reilly (again) • William Henry Cushing • James Stuart Mackie • Thomas Underwood • Silas Alexander Ramsay • John Emerson • Arthur Leslie Cameron (again) • Reuben Rupert Jamieson • John William Mitchell • Herbert Arthur Sinnott • Michael Copps Costello • Robert Colin Marshall • Samuel Hunter Adams • George Harry Webster • Frederick Ernest Osborne • Andrew Davison • James Cameron Watson • Donald Hugh Mackay • Harry Hays • Grant MacEwan • Jack Leslie • Rod Sykes • Ross Patterson Alger • Ralph Klein • Donald Adam Hartman • Al Duerr • Dave Bronconnier