Geoff Wilson (born September 24, 1941) is a Canadian former politician.

Career

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and

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by profession, Wilson was first elected to the

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as the Progressive Conservative member of Parliament for

Swift Current—Maple Creek Swift Current—Maple Creek (previously known as Swift Current) was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 1988. This riding was created in 1914 as "Swift Current ...

, Saskatchewan in the 1984 federal election. Wilson was re-elected in

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in the new riding of Swift Current—Maple Creek—Assiniboia but defeated in

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

Lee Morrison Lee Glen Morrison (born 6 March 1932 in Vidora, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian politician, formerly a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2000. He was first elected at the Swift Current—Maple Creek—Assiniboia electoral dis ...

of the

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. and

Electoral history

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* 1941 births Living people 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Saskatchewan Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs {{Saskatchewan-MP-stub