LeRoy Fjordbotten

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| name = LeRoy Fjordbotten

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| birth_date ={{Birth date|1938|11|4}}

| birth_place = Claresholm, Alberta

| death_date={{death date and age|2017|6|8|1938|11|4}}

| death_place=Alberta, Canada

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| office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

| constituency = Macleod

| term_start = 1979

| term_end = 1993

| predecessor = Thomas Walker

| successor = District abolished

| office2 = Minister of Agriculture

| predecessor2= Dallas Schmidt

| successor2=Peter Elzinga

| termstart2=November 1982

| termend2=May 1986

| office3=Minister of Tourism

| predecessor3=Horst Schmid

| successor3=Donald Sparrow

| termstart3=May 1986

| termend3=1986 or 1987

| office4=Minister of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife

| predecessor4=Donald Sparrow

| successor4=Position abolished

| termstart4=1986 or 1987

| termend4=December 14, 1992

| party = Progressive Conservative

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Edwin LeRoy Fjordbotten (November 4, 1938 {{ndash}} June 8, 2017) was a Canadian provincial level politician and farmer. He served as cabinet minister in the government of Alberta serving various portfolios from 1982 to 1992. He held as seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an MLA in the governing Progressive Conservative caucus from 1979 to 1993.{{cite book |title=A Guide to Alberta's 19th Legislature |author=Alberta Teachers' Association|date=January 1980}}

Political career

Fjordbotten first ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Progressive Conservative candidate for the 1979 Alberta general election. He won a sizable majority defeating three other candidates to hold the electoral district of Macleod for the Progressive Conservatives.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1979&Constit=Macleod| title=Macleod results 1979| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | access-date=October 4, 2009}} He was re-elected in the 1982 Alberta general election winning a landslide and defeating five other candidates.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1982&Constit=Macleod| title=Macleod results 1982| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | access-date=October 4, 2009}}

After his convincing re-election win Fjordbotten was appointed to his first position in the Executive Council of Alberta as Minister of Agriculture. He would serve that post for most of his second term in office. He would become Minister of Tourism after Don Getty became premier of the province. Fjordbotten would handily win his third term winning a three-way race in the 1986 Alberta general election.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1986&Constit=Macleod| title=Macleod results 1986| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | access-date=October 4, 2009}} He held his cabinet post for less than a year after the election before being promoted to be the new Minister of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife. He retained that cabinet post after he was re-elected in the 1989 Alberta general election.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1989&Constit=Macleod| title=Macleod results 1989| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation | access-date=October 4, 2009}} When Ralph Klein became premier in 1992 Fjordbotten was not part of the new cabinet. He did not run again for re-election when the assembly was dissolved in 1993. He died in June 2017 at the age of 78.http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/provincial-news/2017/06/15/former-alberta-tory-cabinet-minister-leroy-fjordbotten-dies-at-78/ {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}{{Cite web | url=https://www.myalternatives.ca/carstairs/obituaries/2017-fjordbotten-edwin-leroy |title = Edwin 'LeRoy' Fjordbotten - June 8th, 2017}}

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:1938 births

Category:2017 deaths

Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs

Category:Members of the Executive Council of Alberta

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