Alan Pope
| Alan Pope | |
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| Ontario MPP | |
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In office 1977–1990 |
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| Preceded by | Bill Ferrier |
| Succeeded by | Gilles Bisson |
| Constituency | Cochrane South |
| Alderman for the City of Timmins | |
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In office 1973–1974 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
August 2, 1945 Ayr, Scotland |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative |
| Alma mater |
Waterloo Lutheran University Osgoode Law School |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Alan William Pope (born August 2, 1945) is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1977 to 1990, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller.
Pope was raised in Northern Ontario, and was educated at Waterloo Lutheran University and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. He worked as a lawyer before entering politics. Pope served as an alderman in the northern city of Timmins from 1973 to 1974.
In the 1975 provincial election he ran as the Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of Cochrane South, but lost to Bill Ferrier of the NDP by 1,292 votes. He ran again in the 1977 provincial election, this time defeating Ferrier by 2,276 votes.
He was appointed as a parliamentary assistant in Davis's government in 1978, and was promoted to Minister without portfolio on August 30, 1979. He faced a minor controversy in 1979 when Ed Deibel, the leader of the small Northern Ontario Heritage Party, publicly claimed that Pope had promised to cross the floor to join the party, which Pope denied.
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