Lloyd Snelgrove

{{short description|Canadian politician|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Cleanup biography|date=December 2010}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| honorific_prefix = The Honourable

| name = Lloyd Snelgrove

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1956|3|27}}{{cite book |title=Biographies of Members - Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 25th Legislature |date=December 2001 |publisher=Legislative Assembly of Alberta }}

| birth_place =Vermilion, Alberta

| residence = Vermilion, Alberta

| office = MLA for Vermilion-Lloydminster

| term_start = 2001

| term_end = 2012

| predecessor = Steve West

| successor = Richard Starke

| party = Independent

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Lloyd Snelgrove {{post-nominals|country=CAN|ECA}} (born March 27, 1956) is a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Vermilion-Lloydminster in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.

Political career

Snelgrove was elected in the 2001 Alberta general election in the district of Vermilion-Lloydminster as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, and was subsequently re-elected in the 2004 and 2008 elections. Snelgrove briefly served as Minister of Finance under the government of Ed Stelmach. He decided to leave the Progressive Conservative caucus on January 27, 2012 and sit is an Independent after becoming disenchanted with Premier Alison Redford.{{cite news |title=Lloyd Snelgrove, former Alberta treasurer, leaves caucus after critical remarks |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/204572/lloyd-snelgrove-former-alberta-treasurer-leaves-caucus-after-critical-remarks/ |access-date=12 June 2020 |work=Global News |agency=The Canadian Press |date=January 27, 2012}}

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