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About James Lyle Telford
- James Lyle Telford (21 June 1889 – 27 September 1960) was the 24th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia from 1939 to 1940 and a founder of the British Columbia branch of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).
- He was born in Valens, Ontario. Telford was a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as CCF representative.
- He campaigned for Vancouver mayor in late 1938, defeating incumbent mayor George Clark Miller by approximately 2000 votes in a city race that involved a total of seven mayoral candidates, which split the right-wing vote.
- Telford did not maintain CCF party membership as mayor, maintaining that political parties should not be a part of municipal politics.
- He was also a medical doctor by profession.
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