14 Facts About John Lymburn

John Farquhar Lymburn was a Canadian politician who served as Attorney-General of Alberta from 1926 until 1935.

John Lymburn accepted the position, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1926 election.

John Lymburn made an unsuccessful attempt to return to the legislature in 1942, and briefly returned to prominence during the Bankers' Toadies incident, before dying in 1969.

John Lymburn was born in Ayr, Scotland, to William and Margaret John Lymburn.

Accordingly, John Lymburn ran in the 1926 provincial election in Edmonton as a UFA candidate, the first time that the overwhelmingly rural party had run a candidate in either of Alberta's two major cities.

John Lymburn finished first of eighteen candidates in Edmonton, and became one of Edmonton's five Members of the Legislative Assembly.

John Lymburn was a major figure in securing the transfer of resource rights from the federal government to the Alberta government.

John Lymburn was involved in scandal: the former head of the Liquor Investigation Bureau made allegations against him after Lymburn eliminated the Bureau to save money, though the charges had little effect either in the legal system or in the public eye.

John Lymburn noted further that Brownlee had insisted on refunding to the government the cost of the investigator.

Douglas from the United Kingdom as an advisor, John Lymburn provided him with a copy of one of Aberhart's speeches and asked him to critique it; Douglas concluded that Aberhart's proposals did not align with "Douglasite" social credit, and that many of them would not have the desired effect.

John Lymburn was an aficionado of the work of fellow Ayrshire native Robbie Burns, whose poetry he could recite in Gaelic, and often spoke at Burns suppers.

John Lymburn briefly re-entered the public eye in 1937, when he was named in a Social Credit-produced pamphlet as one of eight "Bankers' Toadies" who should be "exterminated"; Social Credit whip Joseph Unwin was convicted of criminal libel in relation to the pamphlet.

In 1942, John Lymburn contested a by-election in Edmonton; he finished third of five candidates as Elmer Roper of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation emerged victorious.

John Lymburn died eleven years later, on November 25,1969.