| Hans Enoch Wight | |
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| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta | |
| In office August 22, 1935 – September 2, 1937 |
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| Preceded by | Andrew Smeaton |
| Succeeded by | Peter Campbell |
| Constituency | Lethbridge |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Social Credit |
| Occupation | politician |
Hans Enoch Wight was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1937 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government.
Wight ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as a Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Lethbridge in the 1935 Alberta general election. He defeated incumbent Andrew Smeaton and two other candidates with a landslide majority to pick up the seat for his party.[1]
The Lethbridge Herald broke a story on August 25, 1937 that Wight was about to imminently resign his seat. On the same front page news was also broken about William Chant leaving the Social Credit caucus.[2] The news paper had come under attack by Social Credit supporters forcing the paper to issue a news story standing by its claims the next day. Wight had denied that he intimated his plans for resigning.[3]
Seven days later Wight made his formal announcement of resignation to the media on September 2, 1937 to accept a job as an engineer at a department store in Calgary. He sent his resignation letter to speaker Peter Dawson by mail.[4] Wight's resignation caused a controversy as more than a week after Wight announced his resignation the government was claiming that he hadn't resigned.[5] After weeks of turmoil and charges of grandstanding and claims that the government was afraid of losing a by-election the government finally announced that it had accepted Wights resignation on September 14, 1937.[6]