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Chapters: Alberta Social Credit Leaders, Harry Strom, William Aberhart, Edith Rogers, Galen Norris, Ernest Manning, Robert Curtis Clark, Charles Edward Johnston, Martin Hattersley, Nathan Eldon Tanner, Walt Buck, Randy Thorsteinson, John Landeryou, Gordon Taylor, Solon Earl Low, Joseph Donovan Ross, Ambrose A. Holowach, George Ho Lem, Michael Senych, Raymond Speaker, Norman E. Cook, Fred Mandeville, Clinton French, Joseph Unwin, Roy Wilson, John Lyle Robinson, S. A. G. Barnes, Howard Macdonald, Rose Wilkinson, William Ure, Lavern Ahlstrom, Werner Schmidt, Ernest George Hansell, Leighton Buckwell, Arthur J. Dixon, Elizabeth G. Robinson, Harry Leinweber, Robert A. Simpson, Herbert Ash, Fred Anderson, Damase Bouvier, Edward Benoit, Charles Drain, Frederick Niddrie, Frederick C. Colborne, James Popil, Keith Everitt, Robert Alford, John Hugill, Albert Ludwig, John Victor Anderson, Dennis Barton, Edith Gostick, Ralph Sorenson, Edgar Hinman, Richard Gruenwald, James Albers, Roderick Macleod, William Robert King, Rod Sykes, James Douglas Henderson, William Tomyn, James Lawrence Owens, Anders Aalborg, Harry Lobay, Len Skowronski, Donald S. Fleming, Peter Dawson, Samuel Calvert, Wallace Warren Cross, Herbert Ingrey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 217. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ernest Charles Manning Ernest Charles Manning, PC, CC, AOE (September 20, 1908 February 19, 1996), a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta . He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history (only after George H. Murray of Nova Scotia ). For a period of time, Manning was the longest continually serving democratically elected official in the world. He was also the only member of the...