Ronald Armor Moore (July 28, 1925 – January 9, 2010)https://www.assembly.ab.ca/lao/annual_reports/Report2010/AnnualReport_2010.pdf was a provincial level politician and columnist in

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. He served as a member of the

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from 1982 to 1993.

Early life

Moore was involved with fund raising efforts to help purchase Lacombes old Catholic Church for the Lacombe Legion to use as their hall in 1950.

Political career

Moore was elected to his first term in the Alberta Legislature 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. History Less than four years had passed since the Progressive Conservatives won their landslide victory in 1979. Premie ...

. He won the electoral district of

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defeating three other candidates with a landslide to hold the district for the Progressive Conservatives. On August 1, 1984 Moore opened the Legion Sunset Campground with Minister of Recreation and Parks Peter Trynchy. Moore won re-election in the

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. He defeated

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candidate Ken Ling to win the two race in a landslide. He was re-elected to his third term in office in the

1993 Alberta general election The 1993 Alberta general election was held on June 15, 1993, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The Conservative government was re-elected, taking 51 seats out of 83 (61 percent of the seats) but only having support of 45 pe ...

winning a reduced but comfortable plurality. In his final term in office Moore played a critical impact in the 1992 Alberta Progressive Conservative Leadership election. He is most famously known for delivering critical rural support of 35 Members of the

to help

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win the Progressive Conservative leadership against

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. Moore forced Ralph Klein and Rod Love to promote a fiscally conservative platform to renew the party in the face of deficit budgets and free spending scandals brought on by the leadership of former premier

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. He retired from public office at dissolution of the Legislative Assembly in 1993.

Late life

Moore pushed

Town Council to establish a Veterans Millennium Project. On September 27, 1999 council passed a motion allowing the planting of

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tree's and a bronze plaque along a major street to honor war dead. The motion passed along with a fundraiser organized by Moore raised $20,000.00 towards funding the project.

References

External links

Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Ronald Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs 1925 births 2010 deaths 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta