birth_place party office term birth_date article_title name
tisdale , saskatchewan saskatchewan new democratic party member of the legislative assembly of saskatchewan 1971 -- 1980 26 may 1941 john rissler messer
 jack messer
john rissler messer

john rissler `` jack '' messer -lrb- born may 26 , 1941 -rrb- is a farmer and former political figure in saskatchewan .
he represented kelsey from 1967 to 1971 , tisdale-kelsey from 1971 to 1975 and kelsey-tisdale from 1975 to 1980 in the legislative assembly of saskatchewan as a new democratic party -lrb- ndp -rrb- member .
he was born in tisdale , saskatchewan , the son of william frederick messer and margaret elizabeth rissler , and was educated there and in vancouver , british columbia .
messer worked in real estate in vancouver before continuing his studies at the university of british columbia and the university of saskatchewan .
he then returned to tisdale and settled on a farm near the town .
in 1960 , he married joanne bryson , the daughter of hugh alexander bryson .
he was secretary of the tisdale wheat pool committee and a director for the evington rural telephone company .
messer served in the saskatchewan cabinet as minister of agriculture , as minister of industry and commerce and as minister of mineral resources .
he resigned from cabinet and the assembly in 1980 .
in 1990 , messer became provincial secretary for the saskatchewan ndp .
from 1991 to 1998 , he was president of saskpower .
he then returned to farming .
messer has also served as a director for ducks unlimited canada and was the organizations ' president from 2003 to 2004 .
he lives in tisdale , as of 2012 .
