caption monarch predecessor successor office signature term_start birthname image article_title term_end name
ernest charles manning , 1943 george vi william aberhart harry e. strom 8th premier of alberta ernest manning signature.svg may 31 , 1943 ernest charles manning ernest manning.jpg ernest manning
 december 12 , 1968 ernest charles manning
ernest manning

ernest charles manning , -lrb- september 20 , 1908 -- february 19 , 1996 -rrb- , a canadian politician , was the eighth premier of alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the social credit party of alberta .
he served longer than any other premier in the province 's history and was the second longest serving provincial premier in canadian history -lrb- only after george h. murray of nova scotia -rrb- .
for a period of time , manning was the longest continually serving democratically elected official in the world .
he was also the only member of the social credit party of canada to sit in the senate and , with the party shut out of the house of commons in 1980 , was its very last representative in parliament .
