11 Facts About LeRoy Fjordbotten

Edwin LeRoy Fjordbotten was a Canadian provincial level politician and farmer.

LeRoy Fjordbotten served as cabinet minister in the government of Alberta serving various portfolios from 1982 to 1992.

LeRoy Fjordbotten held as seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an MLA in the governing Progressive Conservative caucus from 1979 to 1993.

LeRoy Fjordbotten won a sizable majority defeating three other candidates to hold the electoral district of Macleod for the Progressive Conservatives.

LeRoy Fjordbotten was re-elected in the 1982 Alberta general election winning a landslide and defeating five other candidates.

LeRoy Fjordbotten would serve that post for most of his second term in office.

LeRoy Fjordbotten held his cabinet post for less than a year after the election before being promoted to be the new Minister of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife.

LeRoy Fjordbotten retained that cabinet post after he was re-elected in the 1989 Alberta general election.

When Ralph Klein became premier in 1992 LeRoy Fjordbotten was not part of the new cabinet.

LeRoy Fjordbotten did not run again for re-election when the assembly was dissolved in 1993.

LeRoy Fjordbotten died in June 2017 at the age of 78.