Ernest Leonard Lee

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| name = Ernest Leonard Lee

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| birth_date ={{Birth date|1923|9|19}}

| birth_place = Dunvegan, Alberta{{cite journal|title=Guide parlementaire canadien|author1=Normandin, P.G.|author2=Normandin, A.L.|journal=The Canadian Parliamentary Guide = Guide Parlementaire Canadien|date=1971|publisher=P.G. Normandin|issn=0315-6168|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MvzvAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=July 12, 2015}}

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1977|7|8|1923|9|19}}

| death_place = Waterhole, Alberta

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| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

| constituency = Dunvegan

| term_start = June 17, 1963

| term_end = August 30, 1971

| predecessor = Joseph Scruggs

| successor = District Abolished

| party = Social Credit

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| occupation = politician

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Ernest Leonard Lee (September 19, 1923 – July 8, 1977) was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1963 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government.

Political career

Lee ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1963 Alberta general election as the Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Dunvegan. He won the district with a comfortable majority defeating two other candidates to hold it for his party.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1963&Constit=Dunvegan| title=Dunvegan results 1963| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=April 22, 2010}} Lee ran for a second term in the 1967 Alberta general election. The election was hotly contested with Lee facing a strong challenge from NDP candidate Phil Thompson. He held his seat by a margin of 200 votes.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1967&Constit=Dunvegan| title=Dunvegan results 1967| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=April 22, 2010}} Lee retired from the Alberta Legislature at dissolution in 1971.

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024650/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]

Category:Alberta Social Credit Party MLAs

Category:1977 deaths

Category:1923 births

Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta