Hector Language

Career

Language ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election held in the Medicine Hat electoral district on May 1, 1928. Language faced three other candidates winning almost 40% to head the polls on the first count. On the second count Language was just shy of a majority.

Two years later Language would run for a second term in office in the 1930 Alberta general election.

Like the by-election in 1928 this election would also go to transfers. Language would run for a third term in office in the 1935 Alberta general election.

He would be defeated in a landslide by Social Cr candidate John Robinson finishing a distant second in the three way race.

Achievements

• He won the district on the third count to earn his first term in office and hold the district for the Liberals. On the first count Language nearly won outright winning almost 46% of the vote. He won on the second count after second place choices gave him nearly 60%.

Membership

He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1928 to 1935 sitting with the opposition Liberal caucus.