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Biography
Charles Garrett Holder was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1940 and 1944 to 1948 sitting both times as a member of the Social Credit caucus.
Political career
Holder ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1935 Alberta general election as a Social Credit candidate. He won a hotly contested race in the electoral district of St. Albert defeating incumbent Omer St. Germain to pick up the seat for his party.
Holder ran for a second term in the 1940 Alberta general election. He was defeated by Independent candidate Lionel Tellier on the fourth count in a hotly contested race.
Holder was nominated to run for Social Credit again at a convention held in Morinville on February 9, 1944. He ran in the general election held that year and won on the second vote count to regain the seat. Holder did not for a third term and retired at dissolution in 1948.