William Simmons (politician)

William Charles Simmons (February 28, 1865 – August 24, 1956) was a Canadian politician and judge from Alberta.

[1][2] Simmons attended the University of Toronto and completed a Bachelor of Arts in 1895.

[1][2] Simmons married Mary W. Wilson on August 7, 1899, and moved west to Alberta to become a principal in Lethbridge.

[2] Simmons resigned from teaching to article with R. B. Bennett in Calgary and passed the bar in the North-West Territories on August 12, 1900.

He was defeated by the former Northwest Territories MLA Charles Alexander Magrath.