Rob Lougheed (born 1947) is a politician from

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. Lougheed was born in

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in 1947 and attended the

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. He was elected to the

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in the 1997 general election as the member for

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. Running under the Progressive Conservative banner, he defeated incumbent

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of the

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. He was easily reelected to another term in 2001. In the

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, Lougheed was re-elected in the new district of Strathcona. He retired from the Assembly at dissolution in 2008.

External links

Rob Lougheed homepage
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