Edith Rogers (Alberta Politician)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edith Blanche Rogers (née Edith Blanche Cox) (September 20, 1894 - July 17, 1985) was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 until 1940. Born in Nova Scotia, she came west to Alberta to accept a job as a teacher. She later moved to Calgary where she encountered evangelist William Aberhart and became a convert to his social credit economic theories. After advocating these theories across the province, she was elected in the 1935 provincial election as a candidate of Aberhart's newly formed Social Credit League.