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The 7th Alberta Legislative Assembly lasted from 1930 to 1935. The United Farmers of Alberta government had been re-elected to their third term in power under Premier John Brownlee. ==Scandals== (詳細はsex scandal in which he was successfully sued for the ancient and rarely litigated civil tort of seduction by a young woman in his employ. In July 1933 Brownlee gave a car ride to Vivian MacMillan, then employed as a clerk in the office of the attorney general. MacMillan's fiancé filed a seduction suit against Brownlee, who denied all charges and launched a countersuit alleging that MacMillan, her father, and her fiancé had planned the entire affair for their own financial gain. The jury found Brownlee guilty of seduction, but the presiding judge overturned its verdict. Nevertheless, the circumstances were damaging enough that Brownlee resigned from the provincial ministry in July 1934.〔 Little Bow MLA Oran McPherson also had a high profile divorce scandal that made big headlines after Cora McPherson took him to court.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.albertasource.ca/lawcases/series/series_3.htm )〕 The UFA's economic policies as well as the scandalizing of Alberta's conservative population led to the party's downfall in the 1935 election when it failed to win one seat in the legislature. William Aberhart and his Social Credit Party swept the province. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「7th Alberta Legislature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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