Monarch Elizabeth II Name Gordon Towers Premier Don Getty
Ralph Klein Role Canadian Politician | Preceded by Helen Hunley Succeeded by Bud Olson Preceded by Robert N. Thompson | |
Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn
Romeo LeBlanc Full Name Thomas Gordon Towers Born July 5, 1919
Willowdale, Alberta ( 1919-07-05 ) Political party Progressive Conservative Party of Canada Died June 8, 1999, Red Deer, Canada Party Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | ||
Thomas Gordon Towers, AOE (July 5, 1919 – June 8, 1999) was a Canadian politician and the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.
A farmer by profession, Gordon Towers was an unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate in Red Deer, Alberta in the 1963 and 1965 federal elections.
He won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1972 election, and was re-elected four subsequent times. He did not run in the 1988 election. From 1984 to 1986, he was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Solicitor General of Canada. From 1986 to 1987, he was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Science and Technology.
In 1991, he was appointed to the position of Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta, and served until 1996.
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