Otto Buchanan Elliot was a railway station agent, and one of the founding representatives of the Social Credit Party of Canada

Social Credit Party of Canada

The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...

, a political party in Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 that promoted the social credit

Social Credit

Social Credit is an economic philosophy developed by C. H. Douglas , a British engineer, who wrote a book by that name in 1924. Social Credit is described by Douglas as "the policy of a philosophy"; he called his philosophy "practical Christianity"...

 theories of monetary reform.

Born in Erin, Ontario

Erin, Ontario

Erin is a town in Wellington County, approximately 80 kilometres northwest of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Erin is an amalgamated town, composed of the former Villages of Erin and Hillsburgh, and the hamlets of Ballinafad, Brisbane, Cedar Valley, Crewson's Corners, and Orton, as well as the former...

, he was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 in the 1935 election

Canadian federal election, 1935

The Canadian federal election of 1935 was held on October 14, 1935 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 18th Parliament of Canada. The Liberal Party of William Lyon Mackenzie King won a majority government, defeating Prime Minister R.B. Bennett's Conservative Party.The central...

 as Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 representing Kindersley, Saskatchewan

Kindersley, Saskatchewan

Kindersley is a town in west central Saskatchewan, Canada, located at Section 10, Township 29, Range 23, West of the 3rd Meridian, along highway 7, a primary highway linking Calgary, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan...

. He did not run for re-election in 1940 in order to allow the leader of the New Democracy

New Democracy (Canada)

New Democracy was a political party in Canada founded by William Duncan Herridge in 1939. Herridge, a former Conservative party adviser who was Canada's Envoy to the United States from 1931-35 during the government of R. B. Bennett....

 party, William Herridge, to contest what was hoped to be a safe seat

Safe seat

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. The Social Credit movement had decided to support Herridge's new party. Herridge was unable to win the Kindersely seat

Kindersley (electoral district)

Kinderseley was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1917 to 1968. It was created in 1914 from Battleford, Moose Jaw and Saskatoon ridings...

 in the 1940 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1940

The Canadian federal election of 1940 was the 19th general election in Canadian history. It was held March 26, 1940 to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 19th Parliament of Canada...

, however, coming in third place.