Dennis Patterson

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Dennis G. Patterson is a politician and lawyer. He served as MLA for Frobisher Bay and Iqaluit from 1978 to 1995, as NWT Minister of Education, Justice and Municipal Affairs and was chosen as the fifth consensus Government Leader [now Premier] of Northwest Territories, Canada from 1987 to 1991.

Dennis is currently a member of the Law Society of Nunavut. In the past he has served as a Director of the Northwest Territories Law Foundation and as Chair of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Legal Services Board until 2000. He became a private consultant in 2001.^[1]

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• List of Northwest Territories Premiers

Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
Preceded by New District	MLA Frobisher Bay 1979-1983	Succeeded by District Abolished
Preceded by New District	MLA Iqaluit 1983-1995	Succeeded by Ed Picco
Preceded by Nick Sibbeston	Premier of Northwest Territories 1987-1991	Succeeded by Nellie Cournoyea

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