Edwin LeRoy Fjordbotten (November 4, 1938 June 8, 2017) was a Canadian provincial level politician, farmer and auctioneer. He served as cabinet minister in the government of Alberta serving various portfolios from 1982 to 1992. He held as seat 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. The Legislative Assembly currently has 87 members, elected first past the post from sing ...

as an MLA in the governing Progressive Conservative caucus from 1979 to 1993.

Political career

Fjordbotten first ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Progressive Conservative candidate for the

1979 Alberta general election The 1979 Alberta general election was held on March 14, 1979, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, which had been expanded to 79 seats. The Progressive Conservative Party of Peter Lougheed won its third consecutive term in go ...

. He won a sizable majority defeating three other candidates to hold the electoral district of

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for the Progressive Conservatives. He was re-elected in the

1982 Alberta general election The 1982 Alberta general election was held on November 2, 1982, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Less than four years had passed since the Progressive Conservatives won their landslide victory in 1979. Premier Peter Lou ...

winning a landslide and defeating five other candidates. After his convincing re-election win Fjordbotten was appointed to his first position in the

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as Minister of Agriculture. He would serve that post for most of his second term in office. He would become Minister of Tourism after

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became premier of the province. Fjordbotten would handily win his third term winning a three-way race in the

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. He held his cabinet post for less than a year after the election before being promoted to be the new Minister of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife. He retained that cabinet post after he was re-elected in the

1989 Alberta general election The 1989 Alberta general election was held on March 20, 1989, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Many political observers were surprised by the early election call as less than three years had passed since the previous ele ...

. When

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became premier in 1992 Fjordbotten was not part of the new cabinet. He did not run again for re-election when the assembly was dissolved in 1993. He died in June 2017 at the age of 78.

References

External links

Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fjordbotten, LeRoy 1938 births 2017 deaths Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Members of the Executive Council of Alberta