Jack George Robertson was a provincial politician from Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Legislative Assembly of Alberta

The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is one of two components of the Legislature of Alberta, the other being the Queen, represented by the Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta. The Alberta legislature meets in the Alberta Legislature Building in the provincial capital, Edmonton...

 from 1971 to 1975 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.

Political career

Robertson ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1971 Alberta general election

Alberta general election, 1971

The Alberta general election of 1971 was the seventeenth general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. It was held on August 30, 1971 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta....

. He defeated Social Credit incumbent Galen Norris

Galen Norris

Galen Clark Norris was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1959 to 1971.-Early life:Galen Clark Noris was born on November 7, 1915...

in a hotly contested straight fight to pickup the Stettler electoral district for the Progressive Conservatives.

Robertson died on December 7, 1971.

External links

• Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing