Jim Heron

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| name = James "Jim" P. Heron

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1940|3|21}}

| birth_place = Edmonton, Alberta

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| office = MLA for Stony Plain

| term_start = 1986

| term_end = 1989

| predecessor = William Purdy

| successor = Stan Woloshyn

| party = Progressive Conservative

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| death_date = {{death date and age|2023|11|27 |1940|3|21}}

| death_place = Stony Plain, Alberta

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James Patrick Heron (March 21, 1940 - November 27, 2023) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1989.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gA_wAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Heron,+james+patrick%22+1940|title = Guide Parlementaire Canadien|year = 1987}}{{Cite web |title=James Heron Obituary |url=https://edmontonjournal.remembering.ca/obituary/james-heron-1089110642}}

Political career

Heron ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1986 Alberta general election. He won the electoral district of Stony Plain to hold it for the governing Progressive Conservative party.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1986&Constit=Stony_Plain| title=Stony Plain results 1986| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=October 4, 2009}} Heron ran for a second term in the 1989 Alberta general election he was defeated by New Democrat candidate Stan Woloshyn in a hotly contested race.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1989&Constit=Stony_Plain| title=Stony Plain results 1989| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | accessdate=October 4, 2009}}

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:1940 births

Category:2023 deaths

Category:Politicians from Edmonton

Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs

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