Hugh F. Hanrahan (16 January 1947 – 19 May 1999) was a member of the

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for the Edmonton—Strathcona

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from 1993 to 1997. His career has been in

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and

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. Hanrahan was born in

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, where he would study arts and education at

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, then moved to Ottawa to obtain a master's degree in education at the

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. He moved to Edmonton where he was a teacher in the city's Roman Catholic school system for more than two decades. He was elected to the

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in the 1993 federal election for the Reform party. He left Canadian politics for health reasons after his term in Parliament ended with the 1997 federal election. In May 1999, Hanrahan died suddenly following an acute stomach infection. He was survived by his wife and daughter.

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