Howard Leroy Dirks (August 7, 1938 - October 26, 2018) is a former oil field technologist, restaurant owner and political figure in

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. He represented

Nelson-Creston Nelson-Creston is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Canada. It made its first appearance on the hustings in the general election of 1933 following a redistribution of the earlier Nelson riding. ...

in the

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from 1986 to 1991 as a

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member. He was born in

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and educated at the

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. In 1961 Dirks married Lorna Mary Logan. He was an alderman for

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. Dirks served in the provincial cabinet as Provincial Secretary. He was defeated by

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when he ran for reelection to the assembly in 1991 and 1996; in 1996, Dirks ran as a

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candidate.

References

British Columbia Liberal Party candidates in British Columbia provincial elections British Columbia Social Credit Party MLAs 1938 births Living people Canadian oilmen Canadian restaurateurs Members of the Executive Council of British Columbia People from Nelson, British Columbia People from Rural Municipality Laird No. 404, Saskatchewan University of Saskatchewan alumni {{BritishColumbia-MLA-stub