Edgar Peter Lougheed was a Canadian lawyer and Progressive Conservative politician who served as the tenth premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985, presiding over a period of reform and economic growth.
Peter Lougheed in 1983
Peter Lougheed as a member of the Alberta Golden Bears football team in 1947.
In 1943 Ernest Manning became Alberta's premier, a position he held until 1968.
Minesite at Syncrude's Mildred Lake plant
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta was a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta that existed from 1905 to 2020. The party formed the provincial government, without interruption, from 1971 until the party's defeat in the 2015 provincial election under premiers Peter Lougheed, Don Getty, Ralph Klein, Ed Stelmach, Alison Redford, Dave Hancock and Jim Prentice. At 44 years, this was the longest unbroken run in government at the provincial or federal level in Canadian history.
During the 1905 election, the Conservatives were led by future Canadian Prime Minister R. B. Bennett
Ralph Klein: PC Leader and Premier, 1992–2006
Ed Stelmach: PC Leader and Premier, 2006–2011
Alison Redford campaigning during the 2012 provincial election
