17 Facts About Stanley Schumacher

Stanley Stanford Schumacher was a politician from Alberta, Canada.

Stanley Schumacher was speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and a member of the House of Commons of Canada.

Stanley Stanford Schumacher was born in Hanna, Alberta, to parents Louis and Gladys Schumacher on 12 June 1933.

Louis Schumacher was a businessman and his mother Gladys was a school teacher.

Stanley Schumacher joined the Canadian Officers' Training Corps in fall 1954 and served until 1958 as a commissioned second lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, including a deployment to Soest, Germany with the Royal Canadian Dragoons.

Stanley Schumacher attended school in Dorothy and Drumheller, Alberta, and went on to the University of British Columbia, where he received his Bachelor of Commerce in 1958 and Bachelor of Laws in 1959.

Stanley Schumacher first ran for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the 1968 federal election and was elected to represent Palliser in Alberta.

Stanley Schumacher served three terms in the House of Commons.

Stanley Schumacher intended to seek his party's nomination in the new riding of Bow River, which included much of his old district, but was asked by party officials to step aside in favour of leader Joe Clark, whose own riding of Rocky Mountain had been abolished.

In Bow River, Stanley Schumacher was challenged for the nomination by former Socred Gordon Taylor and lost in a controversial meeting in which Stanley Schumacher's supporters alleged that people who were not bona fide members of the party voted.

On 28 February 1978, Stanley Schumacher left the party and sat as an independent.

Stanley Schumacher was elected and was appointed Deputy Speaker, a position he held until 1993.

Stanley Schumacher was reelected in the 1989 and 1993 general elections.

Stanley Schumacher became the first elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly after the retirement of David Carter, defeating Liberal candidate Bettie Hewes.

Stanley Schumacher retired from the Assembly after dissolution in 1997.

In November 2012, Stanley Schumacher received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition for his public service contributions to Albertans and Canadians over the past more than 45 years.

Stanley Schumacher died 10 October 2020, aged 87, from complications of dementia.