Kenny Blatchford was educated at a commercial college, and was an excellent wrestler and all-around athlete as a youth.
13 Facts About Kenny Blatchford
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Kenny Blatchford moved to Edmonton with his parents by ox-cart during the 1890s, and began selling newspapers.
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Kenny Blatchford married Grace Lauder Walker on 19 December 1904, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.
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Kenny Blatchford was a member of the Presbyterian Church in Canada.
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Kenny Blatchford first sought public office in the 1921 municipal election, when he was elected to Edmonton City Council for a one-year term as an alderman, finishing fifth out of seventeen candidates.
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Kenny Blatchford was re-elected, this time to a two-year term, in the 1922 election, in which he finished third of sixteen candidates.
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Kenny Blatchford resigned midway through his term to run for mayor in the 1923 election, in which he handily defeated James Ramsey.
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Kenny Blatchford was re-elected with relative ease in the 1924 and 1925 elections, and did not seek re-election thereafter.
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Kenny Blatchford defeated incumbent Conservative Member of Parliament Ambrose Bury by fewer than two hundred votes.
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Kenny Blatchford served until 1930, when he was defeated by Bury in that year's election.
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Five months after his defeat in the 1932 mayoral election, Kenny Blatchford suffered a nervous breakdown and disappeared.
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Kenny Blatchford's body was found in the North Saskatchewan River on April 22,1933, after he had been missing for two days.
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The carbon neutral community of Kenny Blatchford, which is being developed on the grounds of the former airport, is named in his honour.