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Robert Henry Wiebe (born February 3, 1937) was a municipal and provincial politician from
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,
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. He served as a member of the
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from 1967 to 1971 sitting with the governing Social Credit caucus.


Political career

Wiebe began his political career as the mayor of Grimshaw,
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. He ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the
1967 Alberta general election The 1967 Alberta general election was held on May 23, 1967, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta to the 16th Alberta Legislature. The election was called after the 15th Alberta Legislature was prorogued on April 11, 1967, and ...
while still the mayor. Wiebe ran as the Social Credit candidate in the provincial electoral district of Peace River against two other candidates, including the former mayor of
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, Edward Whitney, who ran as an Independent. Wiebe won the district with over half the popular vote to hold the seat for Social Credit. Wiebe ran for a second term in office in the
1971 Alberta general election The 1971 Alberta general election was the seventeenth general election held in the Province of Alberta, Canada on August 30, 1971, to elect seventy-five members of the Alberta Legislature to form the 17th Alberta Legislative Assembly. The Progre ...
. He would be defeated by Progressive Conservative candidate Al Adair in a hotly contested race.


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Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
Alberta Social Credit Party MLAs Mayors of places in Alberta 1937 births Living people {{Alberta-politician-stub