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Tom Lysons
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Thomas "Tom" Fredrick Lawrence Lysons (November 20, 1934 – May 7, 1997) was a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1986.
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Political career
[edit]Lysons ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1975 Alberta general election. He won the electoral district of Vermilion-Viking winning a hotly contested race to pick up the district for the governing Progressive Conservative party.[2] He ran for a second term in office in the 1979 Alberta general election this time winning easily after significantly increasing his popular vote.[3] Lysons would win his highest popular vote running for his final term in office in the 1982 Alberta general election.[4] He retired from the legislature at dissolution in 1986.
Lysons died in 1997.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Guide Parlementaire Canadien". 1946.
- ^ "Vermilion-Viking results 1975". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved October 31, 2009.
- ^ "Vermilion-Viking results 1979". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved October 31, 2009.
- ^ "Vermilion-Viking results 1982". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved October 31, 2009.
- ^ "Mr. Thomas Fredrick Lawrence Lysons, 1934 to 1997" (PDF). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Legislative Assembly of Alberta. May 7, 1997. p. 387. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 5, 2011.