Dick Fowler (politician)

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Richard S. "Dick" Fowler is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Minister of the Crown in the Government of Alberta, two-time mayor of St. Albert, Alberta, and Justice of the Provincial Court of Alberta.

Dick Fowler was first elected as Mayor of St. Albert in 1965, and served a single term in this capacity. He did not seek re-election in 1968. However, he returned to office in 1980 as the only candidate to replace the retiring Ronald Harvey. He was acclaimed again in 1983 and re-elected in 1986 with nearly seventy percent of the vote, but resigned in 1989, months before the end of his third term, to run as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1989 provincial election in St. Albert.

Incumbent New Democrat Bryan Strong was not seeking re-election, and Fowler defeated his closest challenger, Liberal Len Bracko, by more than two thousand votes. He was made Solicitor General in the cabinet of Don Getty, a role he filled until February of 1992, when Getty appointed him to the joint portfolios of Municipal Affairs and Native Affairs. When Ralph Klein became Premier in December of 1992, Fowler was named Minister of Justice and Attorney General in the first Klein government. Despite his profile as a cabinet minister, Fowler was defeated by Bracko in the 1993 election.

Fowler currently serves as justice of the Provincial Court of Alberta.

Richard S. Fowler Junior High School in St. Albert is named in his honour.

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Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Preceded by
Bryan Strong
MLA St. Albert
1989-1993
Succeeded by
Len Bracko
Political offices
Preceded by
William Veness
Mayor of St. Albert
1965-1968
Succeeded by
Ray Gibbon
Preceded by
Ronald Harvey
Mayor of St. Albert
1980-1989
Succeeded by
Ray Gibbon