Benjamin D. Heppner (March 18, 1943 – September 24, 2006) was a

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school teacher, businessman and politician. He represented

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and

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in the

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from 1995 to 2006. Heppner was born in Waldheim,

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in 1942 and grew up there. He graduated from the

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with a

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and

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and went on to teach school for 22 years. Heppner was also a partner in a farm equipment sales company and owned a lumber yard. He was elected to the town council for

Rosthern, Saskatchewan Rosthern is a town at the juncture of Highway 11 and Highway 312 in central Saskatchewan, Canada. It is roughly halfway between the cities of Prince Albert and Saskatoon. History Mennonite settlers, led by Gerhard Ens, began arriving in ...

and served as the town's mayor in 1988. Heppner was first elected to the Saskatchewan legislative assembly as a

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candidate in 1995, and became one of the founding members of the

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in 1997. He was reelected to the legislature in 1999 and 2003. He died of

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in 2006, aged 63 years old. His daughter Nancy Heppner won election to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan on March 5, 2007.

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Biography for the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
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