Ernest E. Newman served as Mayor of Red Deer, Alberta from 1961 until his resignation in 1965. Before being elected as

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in 1961 to succeed a retiring J. M. McAfee, Newman had been the city's commissioner. Born in London in 1914, he moved to Canada in 1940. He died in 1977.

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1914 births 1977 deaths Mayors of Red Deer, Alberta 20th-century Canadian politicians {{Alberta-politician-stub