Gordon Towers

The Honourable
Gordon Towers
AOE
13th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta
In office
March 11, 1991  April 17, 1996
Monarch Elizabeth II
Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn
Roméo LeBlanc
Premier Don Getty
Ralph Klein
Preceded by Helen Hunley
Succeeded by Bud Olson
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Red Deer
In office
October 30, 1972  November 21, 1988
Preceded by Robert N. Thompson
Succeeded by Doug Fee
Personal details
Born Thomas Gordon Towers
(1919-07-05)July 5, 1919
Willowdale, Alberta
Died June 8, 1999(1999-06-08) (aged 79)
Red Deer, Alberta
Political party Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
Spouse(s) Doris R. Nicholson (m. 1940)
Children 5
Occupation Farmer

Thomas Gordon Towers, AOE (July 5, 1919 June 8, 1999) was a Canadian politician and the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.[1]

A farmer by profession, Gordon Towers was an unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate in Red Deer, Alberta in the 1963 and 1965 federal elections.

He won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1972 election, and was re-elected four subsequent times. He did not run in the 1988 election. From 1984 to 1986, he was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Solicitor General of Canada. From 1986 to 1987, he was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Science and Technology.

In 1991, he was appointed to the position of Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta, and served until 1996.

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