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Stanley Schumacher
QC
Member of Parliament
for Palliser
In office
1968–1979
Succeeded byGordon Taylor
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Drumheller
In office
12 June 1986 – 11 February 1997
Preceded byLewis Clark
Succeeded byRiding abolished
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
In office
1993–1997
Preceded byDavid J. Carter
Succeeded byKen Kowalski
Personal details
Born
Stanley Stanford Schumacher

(1933-06-12)12 June 1933
Hanna, Alberta, Canada
Died10 October 2020(2020-10-10) (aged 87)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Political partyProgressive Conservative
SpouseVirginia Schumacher
Children2
Residence(s)Drumheller, Alberta, Canada
ProfessionBarrister, lawyer

Stanley Stanford Schumacher QC (12 June 1933 – 10 October 2020) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He was speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and a member of the House of Commons of Canada.

Early life

Stanley Stanford Schumacher was born in Hanna, Alberta to parents Louis and Gladys Schumacher on 12 June 1933. Louis Schumacher was a businessman and his mother Gladys was a school teacher.[1] In 1968, he married Virginia Brodie whom he met in the Young Progressive Conservative Club, with whom he had two children, Sandra and David.[2][3]

Schumacher joined the Canadian Officers' Training Corps in fall 1954 and served until 1958 as a commissioned second lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, including a deployment to Soest, Germany with the Royal Canadian Dragoons. Schumacher's military service ended in March 1962.[2]

He attended school in Dorothy and Drumheller, Alberta, and went on to the University of British Columbia, where he received his Bachelor of Commerce in 1958 and Bachelor of Laws in 1959.[2][3] He returned to Drumheller where he practised law.

Federal political career

Schumacher first ran for the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in the 1968 federal election, and was elected to represent Palliser in Alberta. He served three terms in the House of Commons.[4] During this time Schumacher chaired the Alberta Progressive Conservative caucus and was the secretary of the national caucus for one year.[5]

As a result of redistribution before the 1979 federal election, the district of Palliser was abolished. Schumacher intended to seek his party's nomination in the new riding of Bow River, which included much of his old district, but was asked by party officials to step aside in favour of leader Joe Clark, whose own riding of Rocky Mountain had also been abolished. Although Tory officials offered him the nomination in another riding, Schumacher refused to stand down, forcing Clark to run in Yellowhead. In Bow River, Schumacher was challenged for the nomination by former Socred Gordon Taylor and lost in a controversial meeting in which Schumacher's supporters alleged that people who were not bona fide members of the party voted. Schumacher's former assistant, John Aimers, resigned from the party in January 1978 in protest, accusing the national executive of engineering Schumacher's defeat.[6]

On 28 February 1978 Schumacher left the party and sat as an independent. In the election the following year, he ran in Bow River against Taylor and was defeated.

Provincial political career

In the 1986 Alberta general election Schumacher ran for the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta in Drumheller.[7] He was elected and was soon appointed Deputy Speaker, a position he held until 1993. Schumacher was reelected in the 1989 and 1993 general elections.[8][9] He became the first elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly after the retirement of David Carter, defeating Liberal candidate Bettie Hewes.[10] As speaker, Schumacher never named a member and instead employed short adjournments for the purpose of restoring order.[11] He retired from the Assembly after dissolution in 1997.[12]

Late life

After his career in the provincial legislature he formed the Drumheller law firm Schumacher, Gough and Pedersen, and served on the Alberta Surface Rights and Land Compensation boards where he eventually became Chairman in 2001.[13]

In November 2012, Schumacher received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition for his public service contributions to Albertans and Canadians over the past more than 45 years. Earlier he had received the Silver and Golden Jubilee Medals.

Schumacher died 10 October 2020, aged 87, from complications of dementia.[14][15]

References

  1. ^ Perry & Footz 2006, p. 423.
  2. ^ a b c Perry & Footz 2006, p. 424.
  3. ^ a b O'Handley, Kathryn; Sutherland, Caroline, eds. (1996). The Canadian Parliamentary Guide. Scarborough, Ontario: Gale Canada. p. 580. ISBN 1-896413-14-5. ISSN 0315-6168. OCLC 1148186239. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  4. ^ Riding history for Palliser from the Library of Parliament
  5. ^ Perry & Footz 2006, p. 425.
  6. ^ Canadian Press (27 January 1978). "Ex-head of PC youth unit quits the party and will join Liberals". The Globe and Mail. p. A9.
  7. ^ "Drumheller Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  8. ^ "Drumheller Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  9. ^ "Drumheller Official Results 1993 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  10. ^ Perry & Footz 2006, p. 426.
  11. ^ Perry & Footz 2006, p. 427.
  12. ^ "Alberta Legislature Hansard: Biography of Alberta Speakers May 16, 2006" (PDF). Alberta Legislature. Retrieved 25 June 2007.
  13. ^ Perry & Footz 2006, p. 429.
  14. ^ "Remembering the life of Stanley SCHUMACHER".
  15. ^ Rieger, Sarah (17 October 2020). "Stanley Schumacher, former MP, MLA and Speaker of the Alberta Legislature, has died". CBC News. Retrieved 18 October 2020.

Further reading

Parliament of Canada
Preceded by
New District
 Member of Parliament Palliser
1968-1979 		Succeeded by
District Abolished
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Preceded by MLA Drumheller
1986-1997 		Succeeded by
District Abolished
Preceded by Speaker of the Alberta Legislative Assembly
1993-1997 		Succeeded by
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