Everything about Peter Lougheed totally explained
Edgar Peter Lougheed,
PC,
CC,
AOE,
QC, (born
July 26,
1928, in
Calgary, Alberta) is a
Canadian lawyer, and a former
politician and
Canadian Football League player. He served as premier of
Alberta from
1971 to
1985.
Lougheed is the grandson of Sir
James Alexander Lougheed. In
1950, he received a
BA degree, and in
1952, he received a
LL.B degree, both from the
University of Alberta. While in
Edmonton as a student, he played
football for the
Edmonton Eskimos (for two seasons, 1949 and 1950) and served as President of the
Students' Union and of the Alberta Chapter of
Delta Upsilon. In
1954, he received a
MBA degree from
Harvard University.
In 1965, he was elected leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives. The party won the
1971 provincial election, with 49 of the 75 seats in the legislature, defeating the
Social Credit Party which had governed the province since the
1935 election. Lougheed established a
Tory dynasty in the province that has continued uninterrupted since then. Lougheed led his party to victory in the
1975,
1979 and
1982 provincial elections.
As
Premier, Lougheed furthered the development of the oil and gas resources, and started the
Alberta Heritage Fund as a way of ensuring that the exploitation of non-renewable resources would be of long-term benefit to Alberta. He also introduced the Alberta Bill of Rights. Lougheed quarrelled with
Pierre Trudeau's federal
Liberal government over its 1980 introduction of the
National Energy Program. The successful
Calgary bid to host the 1988
Winter Olympics was developed during Lougheed's terms.
From 1996–2002, Lougheed served as
Chancellor of
Queen's University.
Lougheed currently sits on the boards of a variety of organizations and corporations, including the
Royal Bank of Canada and the
Carlyle Group.
Honours
Lougheed was styled "The Honourable" for the duration of his membership in the
Executive Council of Alberta from 1971 to 1986. When he was appointed a
privy councillor (postnominal: "PC") on April 17, 1982, the style "The Honourable" was extended for life. In
1986, he was named a Companion of the
Order of Canada (postnominal: "CC"), and in 1989 he was named to the
Alberta Order of Excellence (postnominal: "AOE"). In
2001 he was inducted into the
Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
The
Peter Lougheed Provincial Park was named after him in Alberta, and an acute care hospital has been named the
Peter Lougheed Centre.
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