Robert Alexander Walker, QC

Queen's Counsel

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 (March 6, 1916 - March 28, 1989) was a lawyer and a Saskatchewan

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 politician. First elected to the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

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 as the CCF

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 member for Hanley constituency

Hanley (electoral district)

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 in the 1948 general election

Saskatchewan general election, 1948

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, he went on to re-election in 1952

Saskatchewan general election, 1952

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, and 1956

Saskatchewan general election, 1956

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. In 1956 he joined the cabinet of Premier Tommy Douglas as Attorney General

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 and Provincial Secretary

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. He continued in those roles following his re-election in 1960

Saskatchewan general election, 1960

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. After Douglas left to lead the federal NDP in 1961, Woodrow Lloyd

Woodrow Stanley Lloyd

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 became premier and the first universal medical care plan

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 in Canada was introduced. In the 1964 general election

Saskatchewan general election, 1964

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, Walker was narrowly defeated according the count on election day, but was declared elected by a judicial recount. He resigned the seat to force a byelection. He was re-elected in December 1964 and served in the CCF-NDP

Saskatchewan New Democratic Party

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 opposition until he was defeated in the 1967 general election

Saskatchewan general election, 1967

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After he left the cabinet in 1964, he resumed the practice of law in Saskatoon until 1984 when he retired to Victoria, British Columbia

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where he died in 1989. He was survived by his wife, Rosa Rebecca Nagel (who died in Victoria in 2005), 4 children and many grandchildren.