Henry Woo ( (March 18, 1929 – November 24, 2014) was a provincial level politician from

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

, Canada. He was born in

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and he served as a member of the

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from 1979 to 1986. During his time in the legislature he sat in the back benches as a member of the governing Progressive Conservative party.

Political career

Woo ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the

1979 Alberta general election The 1979 Alberta general election was held on March 14, 1979, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, which had been expanded to 79 seats. The Progressive Conservative Party of Peter Lougheed won its third consecutive term in go ...

. He won the new electoral district of

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to pick it up for the governing Progressive Conservatives. In the 2nd Legislative Session Woo presented a petition of over 11,000 signatures to the Assembly to prevent the City of

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annexing Strathcona County. Woo ran for a second term in the 1982 general election. He won re-election with a very high plurality of votes. He retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the legislature in 1986. Woo died at the age of 85 on November 24, 2014.

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Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
1929 births 2014 deaths Politicians from Lethbridge Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Canadian people of Chinese descent {{Alberta-politician-stub