Frederick Deryl "Fred" Bradley (born September 17, 1949) is a former politician. He served in the

Legislative Assembly of Alberta The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is the deliberative assembly of the province of Alberta, Canada. It sits in the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton. Since 2012 the Legislative Assembly has had 87 members, elected first past the post f ...

from 1975 to 1993. He also served as Minister of the Environment from 1982 to 1986 under Premiers

Peter Lougheed Edgar Peter Lougheed ( ; July 26, 1928 – September 13, 2012) was a Canadian lawyer and Progressive Conservative politician who served as the tenth premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985, presiding over a period of reform and economic growth. ...

and

Don Getty Donald Ross Getty (August 30, 1933 – February 26, 2016) was a Canadian athlete, businessman, and politician who served as the 11th premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. Before entering politics, Getty had been a quarterback for the Edmon ...

Political career

Bradley ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the

1975 Alberta general election The 1975 Alberta general election was held on March 26, 1975, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta to the 18th Alberta Legislature. The election was called on February 14, 1975 prorogued and dissolved of the 17th Alberta Leg ...

and defeated incumbent Social Credit MLA Charles Drain. In the 1979 general election he was re-elected with a slightly larger plurality than in 1975. He was re-elected in the 1982 general election with the largest plurality of his career. After the election Premier

appointed Bradley the new Minister of Environment. He remained with this portfolio when

became Premier in 1985. In the 1986 general election Bradley defeated New Democrat candidate Mike Cooper by 186 votes and with 51.5% of the popular vote. After the election he was appointed Chairman of the Alberta Research Council. He faced Cooper again in the 1989 general election and won by a larger margin. He retired at dissolution of the Assembly in 1993. Bradley was appointed to the first board of directors of the Alberta Association of Former MLAs by Speaker

Ken Kowalski Kenneth Reginald Kowalski (born September 27, 1945) is a politician and former teacher from Alberta, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, where he served from 1979 to 2012, sitting with the governing Progressive Conse ...

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Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
Living people Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs 1949 births Members of the Executive Council of Alberta 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta {{Alberta-MLA-stub