Allan Warrack

Allan Alexander Warrack
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
In office
August 30, 1971  March 14, 1979
Preceded by Raymond Ratzlaff
Succeeded by Connie Osterman
Constituency Three Hills
Minister of Lands and Forests
In office
September 10, 1971  March 1975
Preceded by Joseph Ross
Succeeded by Bud Miller
Minister of Utilities and Telephones
In office
March 1975  March 1979
Preceded by Roy Farran
Succeeded by Larry Shaben
Personal details
Born (1937-05-24) May 24, 1937
Calgary, Alberta[1]
Political party Progressive Conservative
Spouse(s) Jean Warrack
Occupation Professor, politician

Allan Alexander Warrack (born May 24, 1937) is a former provincial level politician and current University Professor from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus from 1971 to 1979. During his time in office he served a couple different cabinet portfolios in the government of Premier Peter Lougheed. He currently teaches at the University of Alberta.

Political career

Warrack ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1971 Alberta general election. He won a hotly contested race defeating incumbent Raymond Ratzlaff by 8 votes to pick up the Three Hills electoral district for the Progressive Conservatives who went on to form government in that election.[2]

After the election Premier Peter Lougheed appointed Warrack to the Executive Council of Alberta. He would serve as Minister of Lands and Forests. Warrack ran for a second term in office with ministerial advantage in the 1975 Alberta general election. He would defeat three other candidates easily to be returned to his seat.[3]

Lougheed shuffled Warrack after the election to serve as the Minister of Utilities and Telephones. He would retire from provincial politics at dissolution of the Assembly in 1979.

Late life

After leaving provincial politics Warrack became a Professor at the University of Alberta with the Department of Marketing, Business Economics and Law in the Faculty of Business and also serves as the Associate Dean of the Master of Public Management Program and Vice-President of Administration.[4]

He also serves a position on the National Research Council of Canada.[4]

References

  1. Marquis Who's Who, Inc; Marquis Who's Who, LLC (1980). Who's who in the West. 17. Marquis Who's Who, Incorporated. ISBN 9780837909172. Retrieved November 17, 2014.
  2. "Three Hills results 1971". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
  3. "Three Hills results 1975". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
  4. 1 2 "Allan Warrack". National Research Council of Canada. Retrieved December 5, 2009.
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