{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Daniel H. Galbraith PAA A3600.jpg | image_size = | name = Daniel Harcourt Galbraith | caption = | birth_date = November 30, 1878 | birth_place = [[Guelph]], [[Ontario]], Canada | death_date = {{death date and age|1968|10|30|1878|11|30}} | office = [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta|Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta]] | constituency = [[Nanton (provincial electoral district)|Nanton]] | term_start = July 18, 1921 | term_end = June 19, 1930 | predecessor = [[James Weir (politician)|James Weir]] | successor = District abolished | party = [[United Farmers of Alberta|United Farmers]] | spouse = | children = | occupation = politician | branch = | allegiance = | battles = | service_years = | rank = | unit = | commands = | awards = }} '''Daniel Harcourt Galbraith''' (November 30, 1878 – October 30, 1968) was a provincial politician from [[Alberta]], Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1921 to 1930 sitting with the [[United Farmers of Alberta|United Farmers]] caucus in government.
==Early life== Galbraith was born in 1878 in [[Guelph, Ontario|Guelph]], [[Ontario]]. His grandfather was [[Daniel Galbraith (Ontario politician)|Daniel Galbraith]], a former Member of Parliament. He took his post secondary education at Ontario Agriculture College where he met his wife and married her. They settled in the [[Vulcan, Alberta|Vulcan]], [[Alberta]] area in 1904. They had three sons Doug, Curly & Robert (Bob) Galbraith.
Galbraith was good friends with [[R. B. Bennett|Richard Bennett]] and [[Arthur Meighen]] who both served as Conservative prime ministers of Canada.<ref name="annivvul50">{{cite news|title=Vulcan Celebrates 50th Anniversary|publisher=The Lethbridge Herald|page=7|date=July 2, 1963|work= Vol LVI No. 170}}</ref>
==Political career== In the [[1917 Canadian election|1917 federal election]], Galbraith ran for a seat in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as a [[Alberta Non-Partisan League|Non-Partisan League]] candidate in the electoral district of [[Bow River (electoral district)|Bow River]]. He placed third, and the seat was taken by [[Unionist Party (Canada)|Unionist]] government candidate [[Howard Hadden Halladay|Howard Halladay]].<ref name="17fed">{{cite web|title=Bow River Election Results|date=December 17, 1917|publisher=Parliament of Canada|accessdate=May 2, 2010|url=http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/hfer.asp?Language=E&Search=Cresdetail&Election=5207|archive-date=January 1, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101002259/http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/HFER/hfer.asp?Language=E|url-status=dead}}</ref>
As a [[United Farmers of Alberta]] candidate, Galbraith ran for the [[Nanton (provincial electoral district)|Nanton]] seat in the Alberta Legislature in the [[1921 Alberta general election]]. The sitting MLA [[James Weir (politician)|James Weir]] of the Non-Partisan League did not run for re-election so Galbraith took on his mantle and defeated former Liberal MLA [[John M. Glendenning|John Glendenning]] in a hotly contested two way race.<ref name="1921 official">{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1921&Constit=Nanton| title=Nanton Official Results 1921 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=April 29, 2010}}</ref> The UFA were elected to majority government in this election.
Galbraith ran for re-election in 1926. He took an even larger majority of the votes, and won in a three way race.<ref name="1926 official">{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1926&Constit=Nanton| title=Nanton Official Results 1926 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=April 29, 2010}}</ref> He did not run for re-election in 1930.
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{AlbertaMLAbio|ID=0131}}
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