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Louise McKinney
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
In office
7 June 1917 – 18 July 1921
Constituency Claresholm
Personal details
Born Louise Crummy
22 September 1868
Frankville, Ontario
Died 10 July 1931 (aged 62)
Claresholm, Alberta
Political party Non-Partisan League
Other political
affiliations United Farmers
Occupation Women's rights activist and politician
Louise McKinney née Crummy (22 September 1868 – 10 July 1931) was a provincial politician and women's rights activist from Alberta, Canada. She was the first woman sworn in to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the first woman elected to a legislature in Canada and in the British Empire. She served that position from 1917 to 1921 sitting with the Non-Partisan League caucus in opposition.
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McKinney ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1917 Alberta general election. She won the electoral district of Claresholm as a candidate for the Non-Partisan League by defeating Liberal incumbent William Moffat in hotly contested race.[1]
McKinney believed in temperance education, stronger liquor control, women's property rights and the Dower Act. She was one of two woman sworn into the Alberta Legislative Assembly on 7 June 1917, the other being Roberta MacAdams. McKinney became one of "The Famous Five" (also called "The Valiant Five"
[citation needed], along with Irene Parlby, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy and Nellie McClung
She ran for a second term in the 1921 Alberta general election, running under the United Farmers banner. She was defeated and lost her seat to Independent Farmer candidate Thomas Milnes in a hotly contested race.[2]
Late life and honours
Among other honours, in October 2009 the Senate voted to name McKinney and the rest of the Five Canada's first "honorary senators".[3] She died at Claresholm, Alberta, in 1931.[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_McKinney