Lorne Taylor (born 1944) is a former tenured professor and member of the provincial legislature of
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.
Political career
Taylor was elected to the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is the deliberative assembly of the province of Alberta, Canada. It sits in the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton. The Legislative Assembly currently has 87 members, elected first past the post from sin ...
in the
1993 Alberta general election
The 1993 Alberta general election was held on June 15, 1993, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The Conservative government was re-elected, taking 51 seats out of 83 (61 percent of the seats) but only having support of 45 per ...
. He defeated three other candidates including Al Strom of the
Social Credit
Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed by C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepancies between the cost of goods and the compensation of the workers who made them. To combat what he ...
with a large plurality. He won his second term in office in the
1997 Alberta general election
The 1997 Alberta general election was held on March 11, 1997, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
Ralph Klein's Conservatives were re-elected, with increased number of seats in the Legislature. Liberal Official Opposition los ...
, with a larger plurality defeating three other candidates.
In 1999 Taylor was appointed to the cabinet as Minister of Science and Innovation.
He won his third term in office in the
2001 Alberta general election. This time Taylor won in a landslide defeating two other candidates.
He was appointed to serve as Minister of the Environment and retired at dissolution of the Legislature in 2004.
References
External links
Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
1944 births
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs
Living people
University of Calgary alumni
Members of the Executive Council of Alberta
21st-century Canadian politicians
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