Hugh Cragg Farthing | |
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MLA for Calgary | |
In office 1930–1935 |
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Preceded by | Alexander McGillivray Robert Parkyn |
Succeeded by | Edith Gostick Ernest Manning Fred Anderson John Hugill |
Personal details | |
Born | July 17, 1892 Woodstock, Ontario |
Died | June 1969 (aged 76) Calgary, Alberta |
Political party | Conservative |
Hugh Cragg Farthing (July 17, 1892 – June 1969) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1930 until 1935 representing the electoral district of Calgary.
He was educated at Kingston Collegiate Institute and McGill University, where he was a member of The Kappa Alpha Society. His education at McGill was interrupted by service in World War I.
Farthing ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislature in the Calgary electoral district for the 1930 Alberta general election. He won his seat on the 7th vote count taking third place overall.[1] He was defeated running for a second term in office in the 1935 Alberta general election.[2]
After his defeat from provincial politics Farthing ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1940 Canadian federal election in the electoral district of Calgary East under the National Government banner. He was defeated finishing a close third, in a race that ended in one of the most dramatic four way splits in Canadian History.[3]
In 1957 Farthing was appointed a Judge of the District Court of Southern Alberta.