death_place death_date parliament birth_place constituency_mp predecessor successor profession party birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
vancouver , british columbia 13 july 1992 canadian mullan , idaho , united states burnaby -- seymour ray perrault marke raines teacher new democratic 7 september 1917 october 1972 nels nelson -lrb- politician -rrb-
 may 1974 nels edwin nelson
nels nelson -lrb- politician -rrb-

nels edwin nelson -lrb- 7 september 1917 -- 13 july 1992 -rrb- was a new democratic party member of the canadian house of commons .
he was a teacher by career .
nelson made two attempts to become a member of parliament at alberta 's wetaskiwin riding in the 1965 and 1968 federal elections .
he was first elected at the burnaby -- seymour riding in the 1972 general election and served in the 29th canadian parliament , but was defeated there by marke raines of the liberal party in the 1974 federal election and made no further attempts to return to federal office .
on 13 july 1992 , nelson died of a heart attack in vancouver .
