predecessor successor birth_place party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
fred stewart kyle fawcett goose bay , newfoundland and labrador progressive conservative association of alberta mla for calgary north hill 30 july 1950 1993 richard magnus
 2008 richard magnus
richard magnus

richard magnus -lrb- born july 31 , 1950 -rrb- is a canadian politician currently living in alberta , canada .
magnus served as a municipal alderman for calgary city council representing ward 4 from 1989 until his resignation in 1993 .
he was elected to the legislative assembly of alberta in the 1993 alberta general election to represent the progressive conservatives for calgary north hill .
he served four terms in the legislature before declining to seek re-election in the 2008 election .
in 2001 he ran as a mayoral candidate in the 2001 calgary municipal elections .
he ended up finishing third in a hotly contested race , behind dave bronconnier and bev longstaff .
in late 2007 , magnus announced he would not seek reelection as an mla in the next provincial election .
