Henry Elvins Spencer

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Henry Elvins Spencer (7 March 1882 – 1 October 1972) was a Canadian politician who served as the Member of Parliament for Battle River from 1921 to 1935. He was born in England and worked as a printer and publisher in Paris before moving to Canada in 1908 to become a farmer in Alberta. He was the provincial secretary of the United Farmers of Alberta from 1917 to 1921.

He was elected to the House of Commons in 1921 and was re-elected in 1925, 1926 and 1930. Spencer started as a Progressive MP (1921–1926) and then sat as a United Farmers of Alberta MP (1926–1935). He was part of the Ginger Group of radical MPs and was a founding member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1932. He lost elections in 1935, 1940 and 1945 as a CCF candidate. He retired to Comox, British Columbia in 1948 and died in 1972.