Jack Cookson

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| name = Jack Cookson

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| birth_name=John William Cookson

| birth_date ={{birth date|1928|10|29}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gP_vAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Cookson,+John+William%22|title = Guide Parlementaire Canadien|year = 1977}}

| birth_place = Lougheed, Alberta, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|7|8|1928|10|29}}

| death_place=Lacombe, Alberta, Canada

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| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

| constituency = Lacombe

| term_start = August 30, 1971

| term_end = November 2, 1982

| predecessor = Allen Patrick

| successor = Ronald Moore

| office1 = Minister of the Environment

| premier1 = Peter Lougheed

| term_start1 = March 1979

| term_end1 = November 1982

| predecessor1 = David John Russell

| successor1 =Frederick Bradley

| party = Progressive Conservative

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| occupation = politician

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John William Cookson (October 29, 1928 – July 8, 2021) was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada.[https://www.wilsonsfuneralchapel.ca/obituary/Jack-Cookson Jack Cookson]'s obituary He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus. During his time in office he served in the Executive Council of Alberta as Minister of the Environment from 1979 to 1982 under the Peter Lougheed government.

Political career

Cookson ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1967 Alberta general election. He was defeated by incumbent Allen Patrick finishing a strong second.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1967&Constit=Lacombe| title=Lacombe results 1967| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=April 25, 2010}}

Cookson ran for a second time in the 1971 Alberta general election. He won the electoral district of Lacombe in a tight race over Social Credit candidate Ivan Stonehocker to pick up the district for the Progressive Conservatives who went on to form government that election.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1971&Constit=Lacombe| title=Lacombe results 1971| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=November 19, 2009}}

Cookson and Stonehocker would face each other again in the 1975 Alberta general election. Stonehocker's vote collapsed and Cookson won his second term easily.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1975&Constit=Lacombe| title=Lacombe results 1975| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=November 19, 2009}} He would run for a third term in office in the 1979 Alberta general election. That election saw a crowded field of candidates with Cookson facing four opponents. He won a slightly larger share of the popular vote winning an easy victory on election night.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1979&Constit=Lacombe| title=Lacombe results 1979| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=November 19, 2009}}

After the election Premier Peter Lougheed appointed Cookson to be Minister of the Environment. He held that portfolio until he retired at dissolution of the Assembly in 1982.

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:1928 births

Category:2021 deaths

Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs

Category:Members of the Executive Council of Alberta

Category:People from Flagstaff County

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