Clarence W. Anderson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, Canada
About Clarence W. Anderson
- Clarence Wentworth Anderson (February 17, 1871 – December 16, 1944) was a Canadian politician.
- He represented the electoral district of Guysborough County in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1920 to 1925, and 1928 to 1937.
- He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.Born in 1871 at Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, Anderson was a merchant by career.
- He married Annie Baker in 1894, and then Katherine Clifford MacLennan.
- He was a municipal councillor, serving from 1908 to 1920 as warden for the Municipality of the District of St.
- Mary's.Anderson entered provincial politics in 1920, when he was elected in the dual-member Guysborough County riding with Liberal James Cranswick Tory.
- Both Anderson and Tory were defeated when they ran for re-election in 1925, but Anderson regained the seat in the 1928 election, serving with Liberal Michael E.
- Morrison.
- In the 1933 election, Anderson was re-elected in the now single-member Guysborough riding.
- In September 1933, Anderson was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia, serving until he resigned from cabinet in April 1937.
- He did not reoffer in the 1937 election.
- Anderson died at Halifax on December 16, 1944.
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