Richard Magnus (born July 31, 1950) is a Canadian politician currently living in Alberta, Canada. Magnus served as a municipal alderman for Calgary City Council representing Ward 4 from 1989 until his resignation in 1993. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta 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 ...

to represent the Progressive Conservatives for

Calgary North Hill Calgary-North Hill was a provincial electoral district in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1971 to 2012. History The Calgary- ...

. He served four terms in the legislature before declining to seek re-election in the

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. In 2001 he ran as a mayoral candidate in the 2001 Calgary municipal elections. He ended up finishing third in a hotly contested race, behind Dave Bronconnier and Bev Longstaff. In late 2007, Magnus announced he would not seek reelection as an MLA in the next provincial election.

External links

Richard Magnus biography, Alberta Legislative AssemblyCity of Calgary Aldermanic biography Page 197
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Living people 1950 births Calgary city councillors People from Happy Valley-Goose Bay 21st-century Canadian politicians {{Alberta-politician-stub