List of premiers of Alberta
List of premiers

List of premiers of Alberta

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No.	Portrait	Name (Birth–Death) District	Term of office	Electoral mandates (Assembly)	Political party

Premiers of the North-West Territories

1	-	Sir Frederick W. A. G. Haultain (1857–1942) MLA for Macleod	7 October 1897 – 1 September 1905	Title created (3rd Assembly) 1898 election (4th Assembly) 1902 election (5th Assembly)	Independent

Led negotiations for provincial status for Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Premiers of Alberta

1	-	Alexander Cameron Rutherford (1857–1941) MLA for Strathcona	2 September 1905 – 26 May 1910	Title created (no assembly) 1905 election (1st Assembly) 1909 election (2nd Assembly)	Liberal Party Named leader in 1905

Organization of administration for new province; incorporation of City of Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Strathcona and Wetaskiwin; establishment of court system; establishment of University of Alberta and of school system; creation of Alberta Government Telephones, extension of railway network in the province, labour laws, such as eight-hour-day legislation

2	-	Arthur Sifton (1856–1921) MLA for Vermilion	26 May 1910 – 30 October 1917	Appointment (no assembly) 1913 election (3rd Assembly) 1917 election (4th Assembly)	Liberal Party Named leader in 1910

Instituting prohibition; establishment of agricultural colleges, extension of votes to women (white British/Canadian citizens).

3	-	Charles Stewart (1868–1946) MLA for Sedgewick	30 October 1917 – 13 August 1921	Appointment (4th Assembly)	Liberal Party Named leader in 1917

Attempted to establish fairer representation through Single Transferable (STV) balloting in the rural areas.

4	-	Herbert Greenfield (1869–1949) MLA for Peace River	13 August 1921 – 23 November 1925	1921 election (5th Assembly)	United Farmers Named leader in 1921

Creation of Alberta Wheat Pool; repeal of Prohibition and creation of government-owned liquor stores, creation of proportional representation in the cities through Single Transferable Balloting (the Hare system), attempted to impose taxation on land owned by speculators standing idle, and on mineral resources, both over-ruled by the courts.

5	-	John Edward Brownlee (1883–1961) MLA for Ponoka	23 November 1925 – 10 July 1934	Appointment (5th Assembly) 1926 election (6th Assembly) 1930 election (7th Assembly)	United Farmers Named leader in 1925

Sexual Sterilization Act of Alberta; elimination of Alberta Provincial Police; creation of provincial income tax (April, 1932), legislation to control foreclosing on working (but un-profitable) farms

6	-	Richard Gavin Reid (1879–1980) MLA for Vermilion	10 July 1934 – 3 September 1935	Appointment (7th Assembly)	United Farmers Named leader in 1934

Government purchase of cattle from farmers who could no longer afford feed; cost-sharing agreement with federal government and railways to relocate farmers fleeing the Dust Belt.

7	-	William Aberhart (1878–1943) MLA for Okotoks-High River (until 1940) MLA for Calgary (from 1940)	3 September 1935 – 23 May 1943	1935 election (8th Assembly) 1940 election (9th Assembly)	Social Credit Party Named leader in 1935

Attempts to implement social credit economic theory; issuance of prosperity certificates; public works and debt relief programs to aid victims of the Depression; creation of Alberta Treasury Branches financial services institution, consolidated school districts into school divisions, imposed regulation on the oil and gas fields outside Calgary to prevent wastage of natural gas.

8	-	Ernest Manning (1908–1996) MLA for Edmonton (until 1959) MLA for Strathcona East (from 1959)	31 May 1943 – 12 December 1968	Appointment (9th Assembly) 1944 election (10th Assembly) 1948 election (11th Assembly) 1952 election (12th Assembly) 1955 election (13th Assembly) 1959 election (14th Assembly) 1963 election (15th Assembly) 1967 election (16th Assembly)	Social Credit Party Named leader in 1943

Abandonment of social credit economic theory; exploitation of Leduc oil fields; expansion of educational, health and transportation facilities.

9	-	Harry Strom (1914–1984) MLA for Cypress	12 December 1968 – 10 September 1971	Appointment (16th Assembly)	Social Credit Party Named leader in 1968

Alberta Service Corps; introduction of kindergarten; creation of Athabasca University and Grant MacEwan College.

10	-	Peter Lougheed (1928–2012) MLA for Calgary-West	10 September 1971 – 1 November 1985	1971 election (17th Assembly) 1975 election (18th Assembly) 1979 election (19th Assembly) 1982 election (20th Assembly)	Progressive Conservative Association Named leader in 1965

Creation of Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund; Syncrude; 1981 Energy Pricing Agreement with Ottawa; provincial control of natural resources.

11	-	Don Getty (1933–2016) MLA for Edmonton-Whitemud (until 1989) MLA for Stettler (from 1989)	1 November 1985 – 14 December 1992	Appointment (20th Assembly) 1986 election (21st Assembly) 1989 election (22nd Assembly)	Progressive Conservative Association Named leader in 1985

Senate elections; failure to settle land settlement dispute with Lubicon Cree and Metis; creation of Family Day.

12	-	Ralph Klein (1942–2013) MLA for Calgary-Elbow	14 December 1992 – 14 December 2006	Appointment (22nd Assembly) 1993 election (23rd Assembly) 1997 election (24th Assembly) 2001 election (25th Assembly) 2004 election (26th Assembly)	Progressive Conservative Association Named leader in 1992

Privatization of Alberta Government Telephones; opposition to Kyoto Protocol; elimination of public debt through cuts to public sector and infrastructure; introduction of a flat tax on personal income; deregulation of electricity and natural gas industries; expansion of the oil and gas industry.

13	-	Ed Stelmach (b. 1951) MLA for Fort Saskatchewan-Vegreville	14 December 2006 – 7 October 2011	Appointment (26th Assembly) 2008 election (27th Assembly)	Progressive Conservative Association Named leader in 2006

20% increase on royalties charged to oil companies; further development of Athabasca oil sands; removal of health care premiums.

14	-	Alison Redford (b. 1965) MLA for Calgary-Elbow	7 October 2011 – 23 March 2014	Appointment (27th Assembly) 2012 election (28th Assembly)	Progressive Conservative Association Named leader in 2011

Fixed election period; creation of Department of Human Services.

15	-	Dave Hancock (b. 1955) MLA for Edmonton-Whitemud	23 March 2014 – 15 September 2014	Appointment (28th Assembly)	Progressive Conservative Association Named leader in 2014 (interim)

Interim leader during leadership election.

16	-	Jim Prentice (1956–2016) MLA for Calgary-Foothills	15 September 2014 – 24 May 2015	Appointment (28th Assembly)	Progressive Conservative Association Named leader in 2014

Proposed austerity measures to counter budget shortfall during a provincial recession.

17	-	Rachel Notley (b. 1964) MLA for Edmonton-Strathcona	24 May 2015 – 30 April 2019	2015 election (29th Assembly)	New Democratic Party Named leader in 2014

Reintroduction of a progressive tax on personal income; banning of corporate and union donations to political parties; increases to minimum wage, new carbon tax and Climate Leadership Plan.

18	-	Jason Kenney (b. 1968) MLA for Calgary-Lougheed	30 April 2019 – present	2019 election (30th Assembly)	United Conservative Party Named leader in 2017

The United Farmers of Alberta won the 1921 election without a party leader, but Greenfield was made Premier immediately after it.

Sentence(s)

Herbert Greenfield (1869 – 1949) served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925.

final_sentence: Herbert Greenfield (1869 – 1949) served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925.