Violet Stanger

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1940–2023)}}

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

{{Infobox officeholder

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| name = Violet Stanger

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| birth_date = 1940

| birth_place = Rama, Saskatchewan, Canada

| death_date = {{death date and given age|2023|2|6|82}}

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| office1 = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

| constituency1 = Cut Knife-Lloydminster

| term_start1 = 1991

| term_end1 = 1995

| predecessor1 = Michael Hopfner

| successor1 = riding dissolved

| constituency2 = Lloydminster

| term_start2 = 1995

| term_end2 = 1999

| predecessor2 = first member

| successor2 = Milton Wakefield

| party = New Democrat

| occupation =

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Violet Laverne Stanger (1940 – February 6, 2023) was a Canadian politician, who sat in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1991 to 1999.{{cite web |url=https://www.saskarchives.com/sites/default/files/pdf/2019_members_of_leg_assembly.pdf |publisher=Saskatchewan Archives Board |title=Saskatchewan Members of the Legislative Assembly |accessdate=2021-04-03}}Jene M. Porter, Perspectives of Saskatchewan. University of Manitoba Press, 2008. {{ISBN|9780887551833}}. A member of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party caucus, she represented the electoral district Cut Knife-Lloydminster from 1991 to 1995, and Lloydminster from 1995 to 1999.

Stanger was a supporter of Paul Dewar in the federal 2012 New Democratic Party leadership election, and of Trent Wotherspoon in the provincial 2013 Saskatchewan New Democratic Party leadership election. She died on February 6, 2023, at the age of 82.{{cite web | url=https://paragonfuneralservices.com/tribute/details/2009/Violet-Stanger/obituary.html#tribute-start | title=Obituary of Violet Laverne Stanger | Paragon Funeral Service }}