Lieutenant Carl Olof Nickle (July 12, 1914 in

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, Manitoba – December 5, 1990) was an editor and publisher, oil baron, soldier in the Canadian Army and served as a Canadian federal politician from 1951 to 1957. Nickle served a nine-year career in the

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. He joined in 1939 and served in the Calgary Highlanders achieving the rank of Lieutenant.Ottawa Citizen article, April 29, 1983
/ref> Nickle left the Army in 1948. Nickle first ran for a seat in the

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in a by-election held in the electoral district of

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on December 10, 1951. Nickle won the by-election and his first term in office by a comfortable margin. Calgary's electoral boundaries would be redistributed at the drop of the writ for the 1953 federal election. He would run in the new electoral district of

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and be re-elected defeating 4 other candidates. He retired from federal politics at the end of his second term in 1957. Nickle was admitted to the

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in 1974.

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Carl Olof Nickle's published works
1914 births 1990 deaths Canadian Army personnel of World War II Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Alberta Politicians from Winnipeg Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs Calgary Highlanders officers 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada Canadian military personnel from Manitoba {{Alberta-MP-stub