Gordon Towers

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gordon Towers
13th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
In office March 11, 1991 – April 17, 1996
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governor General	Ray Hnatyshyn Roméo LeBlanc
Premier	Don Getty Ralph Klein
Preceded by	Helen Hunley
Succeeded by	Bud Olson
Personal details
Born	July 5, 1919 Willowdale, Alberta
Died	June 8, 1999(1999-06-08) (aged 79) Red Deer, Alberta

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.

External links

Gordon Towers – Parliament of Canada biography

Parliament of Canada
Preceded by Robert N. Thompson	Member of Parliament Red Deer 1972-1988	Succeeded by Doug Fee

v t e Lieutenant Governors of Alberta

Bulyea Brett Egbert Walsh Primrose Bowen Bowlen Page MacEwan Steinhauer Lynch-Staunton Hunley Towers Olson Hole Kwong Ethell

Persondata
Name	Towers, Gordon
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	July 5, 1919
Place of birth	Willowdale, Alberta
Date of death	June 8, 1999
Place of death	Red Deer, Alberta

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike; additional terms may apply for the media files.