Raymond Reierson was a politician from Alberta, Canada.
13 Facts About Raymond Reierson
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Raymond Reierson served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 as a member of the Social Credit caucus in government.
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Raymond Reierson was born in Edberg in 1919, the son of Reier and Bertha C Reierson.
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Raymond Reierson first ran for the Alberta Legislature as the Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of St Paul in the 1952 general election.
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Raymond Reierson narrowly defeated Liberal candidate Laval Fortier to hold the seat for his party.
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Raymond Reierson was re-elected in the 1959 Alberta election with a very solid majority.
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Raymond Reierson was re-elected in the 1963 general election with over half the popular vote in his district.
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Raymond Reierson was re-elected in the 1967 general election in a race against three other candidates.
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Raymond Reierson finished third on the first ballot and withdrew from the race.
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In 1970, as Minister of Telephones, Raymond Reierson lobbied the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to give Alberta Government Telephones exclusive control of distributing television content from the United States.
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Raymond Reierson believed his plan would lower subscriber costs from $6 a month at the time to $1 a month and allow the best content from the three US networks in operation at the time.
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Raymond Reierson was defeated in the 1971 general election by Progressive Conservative candidate Mick Fluker.
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Raymond Reierson turned 100 in 2019 and died in January 2020.