Fred Klym

Fred Theodore Klym (September 28, 1907 in Brokenhead, Manitoba – November 25, 1988) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1969.

Klym was educated at the University of Manitoba and Manitoba Teacher Training School, and worked as a school teacher and farmer. He was initially associated with the Liberal-Progressive Party, and unsuccessfully sought that party's nomination in St. Clements for the 1953 provincial election. He registered as an Independent Liberal-Progressive candidate after losing the nomination to Stanley Copp by six votes, but withdrew before election day.

Klym later switched to the Progressive Conservative Party, and was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1959 provincial election, defeating Liberal-Progressive incumbent William Lucko by 371 votes in the Winnipeg-area riding of Springfield. He defeated Lucko again by 431 votes in the 1962 election, and by 584 votes in that of 1966. On the latter occasion, Richard Loeb of the New Democratic Party finished second.

Klym was a backbench supporter of the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir. He ran in the 1969 provincial election in the redistributed riding of Lac du Bonnet, but was resoundingly defeated by Samuel Uskiw of the NDP.