James Allen "Al" "Boomer" Adair was a minor league baseball player, radio broadcaster and politician from Alberta, Canada.
10 Facts About Al Adair
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Al Adair served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1993.
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Al Adair played minor league baseball for the Peace River Stampeders in the North Peace Baseball League in the 1960s.
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Al Adair first ran for the Alberta legislature in the 1971 general election.
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Al Adair was appointed to the cabinet by Premier Peter Lougheed and served as the minister without portfolio responsible for native affairs.
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Al Adair was re-elected in the 1975 general election over three other candidates.
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Al Adair reached the height of his popularity with a landslide win in the 1982 Alberta general election.
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Al Adair was left out of the cabinet when Ralph Klein became Premier in 1992.
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Al Adair retired from provincial politics with the dissolution of the Assembly in 1993.
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Al Adair died of a heart attack on December 24,1996, at the age of 67.