Peter Lougheed

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Edgar Peter Lougheed PC, CC, AOE, QC, BA, LL.B, MBA, LL.D
The Hon. Peter Lougheed
10th Premier of Alberta
In office 1971 – 1985
Preceded by	Harry E. Strom
Succeeded by	Donald Getty
Born	July 26, 1928 Calgary, Alberta
Political party	Progressive Conservative

Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, BA, LL.B, MBA, LL.D (born July 26, 1928, in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985.

Lougheed is the grandson of Sir James Alexander Lougheed. In 1950, he received a BA degree, and in 1952, he received a LL.B degree, both from the University of Alberta. While in Edmonton as a student, he played football for the Edmonton Eskimos and served as President of the Students' Union and of the Alberta Chapter of Delta Upsilon. In 1954, he received a MBA degree from Harvard University.

In 1965, he was elected leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party. The party won the 1971 provincial election, with 49 of the 75 seats in the legislature, defeating the Social Credit Party which had governed the province since the 1935 election. Lougheed established a Tory dynasty in the province that has continued uninterrupted since then. Lougheed led his party to victory in the 1975, 1979 and 1982 provincial elections.

As Premier, Lougheed furthered the development of the oil and gas resources, and started the Alberta Heritage Fund as a way of ensuring that the exploitation of non-renewable resources would be of long-term benefit to Alberta. He also introduced the Alberta Bill of Rights. Lougheed quarrelled with Pierre Trudeau's federal Liberal government over its introduction of the National Energy Program.

From 1996–2002, Lougheed served as Chancellor of Queen's University.

Lougheed currently sits on the boards of a variety of organizations and corporations, including the Royal Bank of Canada and the Carlyle Group. The Carlyle Group has recently been embroiled in controversy in the United Kingdom when its share of a privatised arms company rocketed upward in value. Additionally Lougheed is a known investor in the CanReg group, run by Prof. G Preston

[edit] Honours

Lougheed was styled "The Honourable" for the duration of his membership in the Executive Council of Alberta from 1971 to 1986. When he was appointed a privy councillor (postnominal: "PC") on April 17, 1982, the style "The Honourable" was extended for life. In 1986, he was named a Companion of the Order of Canada (postnominal: "CC"), and in 1989 he was named to the Alberta Order of Excellence (postnominal: "AOE"). In 2001 he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.

Preceded by Donald S. Fleming	MLA Calgary West 1967-1986	Succeeded by Elaine McCoy
Preceded by Harry E. Strom	Premier of Alberta 1971-1985	Succeeded by Donald Getty

Premiers of Alberta
Rutherford | Sifton | Stewart | Greenfield | Brownlee | Reid | Aberhart | Manning | Strom | Lougheed | Getty | Klein | Stelmach