Edward LeRoy Bowerman (June 2, 1892 – February 17, 1977) was a Canadian politician and farmer. He was elected to the

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in the

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as a member of the

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for the electoral district of Prince Albert by defeating

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, then the

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, in a huge upset, the last of four times that King was defeated in Canadian politics. After serving as an opposition member in the

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, Bowerman lost his seat to

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challenger Francis Heselton Helme in

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. In honor of Bowerman's service to the provincial government of Saskatchewan, the Parliament named a lake after him in the northern part of the province in 1972. Bowerman's son, George Reginald Anderson (Ted) Bowerman, was an MLA for Shellbrook from 1967 to 1982 and member of

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Allan Blakeney Allan Emrys Blakeney (September 7, 1925April 16, 2011) was the tenth premier of Saskatchewan from 1971 to 1982, and leader of the Saskatchewan New Democratic Party (NDP). Early life and career Born in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, Blakeney took his ...

's cabinet from 1971 to 1982, holding various ministerial positions during the period. Ted was born on the family farm in

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, in 1930, and died in a car accident on December 20, 2007.

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