Ronald "Ron" Joseph Tesolin (February 3, 1940 – November 13, 1986) 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
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. He served as a member of 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 singl ...
from 1975 to 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.
Political career
Tesolin ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the
1975 Alberta general election
The 1975 Alberta general election was held on March 26, 1975, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta to the 18th Alberta Legislature. The election was called on February 14, 1975 prorogued and dissolved of the 17th Alberta Legi ...
. He won the electoral district of
Lac La Biche-McMurray
Lac La Biche-McMurray was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada, mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using first-past-the-post balloting from 1971 to 1986.
It replaced the district of Lac La Bi ...
defeating four other candidates by a comfortable margin to pick up the district for the governing Progressive Conservative party.
He retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the legislature in 1979.
References
External links
Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
1940 births
1986 deaths
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs
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