George Kenneth (Ken) Allred (born December 30, 1940 in

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) is a politician in

, Canada, who was a member of the

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, in which he sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative caucus. He is also a former municipal councillor in St. Albert, Alberta and former candidate for the House of Commons of Canada.

Background

Allred is a land surveyor by profession, and graduated from the

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in 1961. He was commissioned as an Alberta Land Surveyor in 1965 and as a Canada Lands Surveyor in 1968. He has held numerous positions with the Alberta Land Surveyors Association, the Canadian Council of Land Surveyors, and the

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(1981 until 2005), including serving as the Executive Director of the ALSA from 1977 until 1991. He was an adjunct professor at the

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from 1984 to 1992.

Political career

Allred was first elected to

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in 1980, and was re-elected in 1983. He did not seek re-election in 1986, but returned to city council in 1989 and served an additional three terms, before retiring from municipal politics in 1998.http://www.fig.net/admin/ga/2004/app_13_allred.pdf Federally, Allred was a charter member of the

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in 1987, and was that party's candidate in the 1988 federal election for the riding of St. Albert. He finished fourth as incumbent Progressive Conservative Walter van de Walle was re-elected. Allred's Liberal opponent in that race was

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, with whom he would later serve on city council. Allred was also President of the Reform Party constituency association from 1987 to 1988, and later a director of the

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constituency association from 2001 until 2003. Provincially, Allred is a supporter of the Progressive Conservative Party, and served as a director of its St. Albert constituency association from 1986 to 1988 and as its President from 2000 until 2003. In June 2007, Allred announced his intention to seek the Progressive Conservative nomination in the riding, challenging incumbent mayor Paul Chalifoux and local seniors activist Frances Badrock. He won a first ballot victory by a "significant margin" and became the party's choice to challenge incumbent Liberal MLA Jack Flaherty in the 2008 election. He defeated Flaherty by nearly three thousand votes to take office as MLA.

Personal life

Ken Allred is married with three sons. He is a former president of the Australian Wine Club of Edmonton.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Allred, Ken Living people University of Alberta faculty Alberta candidates for Member of Parliament Reform Party of Canada candidates in the 1988 Canadian federal election 1940 births People from the Municipal District of Pincher Creek No. 9 St. Albert, Alberta city councillors Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Southern Alberta Institute of Technology alumni 21st-century Canadian politicians