- Harry Andrew Moore
Harry Andrew Moore (born:
February 24 ,1914 Wetaskiwin, Alberta ) is a retired dairy farmer and a former Canadian federal politician from 1962 to 1972.Moore first ran for a seat in the
Canadian House of Commons in the 1962 federal election. He defeated a field of 3 candidates by comfortable margin to win the Wetaskiwin electoral district. Parliament would be dissolved a year later when the minority Progressive Conservative government fell. This forced the 1963 federal election. Moore increased his vote total easily winning re-election. Moore ran for a third term in office in the 1965 federal election winning a third term with a slightly reduced plurality.Moore would win the largest plurality of his career running for office for his fourth and final term in the 1968 federal election. He retired from federal politics in 1972.
During his time in parliament he was on the Standing Committee on Agriculture.
External links
* [http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=fa30d9fe-b7a8-46b6-8acb-9782c3346878&Language=E Harry Andrew Moore Federal Political Experience]
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