Henry Woo ( zh, t=胡建華 (March 18, 1929 – November 24, 2014) was a provincial level politician from

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, Canada. He was born in

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and he served as a member of the

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from 1979 to 1986. During his time in the legislature he sat in the back benches as a member of the governing Progressive Conservative party.

Political career

Woo ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the

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. He won the new electoral district of Edmonton-Sherwood Park to pick it up for the governing Progressive Conservatives. In the 2nd Legislative Session Woo presented a petition of over 11,000 signatures to the Assembly to prevent the City of

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annexing

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. Woo ran for a second term in the 1982 general election. He won re-election with a very high plurality of votes. He retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the legislature in 1986. Woo died at the age of 85 on November 24, 2014.

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1929 births 2014 deaths Politicians from Lethbridge Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Canadian people of Chinese descent 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta {{Alberta-MLA-stub