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Ernest C. Manning

The Honourable
Ernest Manning
PC CC AOE
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Ernest Charles Manning, 1943
8th Premier of Alberta
In office
May 31, 1943 – December 12, 1968
Monarch George VI
Elizabeth II
Lieutenant Governor John C. Bowen
John J. Bowlen
John Percy Page
Grant MacEwan
Preceded by William Aberhart
Succeeded by Harry E. Strom
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
In office
November 4, 1935 – March 21, 1940
Preceded by William Ross
Hugh Farthing
Norman Hindsley
Succeeded by Andrew Davison
William Aberhart
James Mahaffey
Constituency Calgary
In office
March 21, 1940 – June 18, 1959
Preceded by William Howson
Succeeded by District Abolished
In office
June 18, 1959 – December 11, 1968
Preceded by New District
Succeeded by William Yurko
Constituency Strathcona East
Senator for Edmonton West
In office
October 7, 1970 – September 20, 1983
Appointed by Pierre Trudeau
Personal details
Born Ernest Charles Manning
(1908-09-20)September 20, 1908
Carnduff, Saskatchewan, Canada
Died February 19, 1996(1996-02-19) (aged 87)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Political party Social Credit Party of Alberta
Other political
affiliations
Social Credit Party of Canada
Spouse(s) Muriel Aileen Preston (1911–2006)
Children 2
Religion Evangelical Baptist
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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 other 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). He was also the only member of the Social Credit Party of Canada to sit in the Senate and, with the party shut out of the House of Commons in 1980, was its very last representative in Parliament.

Manning was born in Carnduff, Saskatchewan, in 1908 to English immigrants George Henry Manning (1872–1956) and Elizabeth Mara Dixon (1870–1949), and was raised on a farm. A devoted listener of the evangelistic radio broadcasts of future Premier William Aberhart, Manning enrolled in Aberhart's Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute in 1927, becoming the first graduate of that institution.

In 1930, Manning himself began speaking on the Prophetic Bible Institute's, "Back to the Bible Hour" radio broadcasts to a large audience across Canada, a practice as an evangelist he kept up throughout his life even while in politics, including his terms as premier.

In 1936, Manning married Muriel Aileen Preston, the pianist at the Prophetic Bible Institute, with William Aberhart giving the bride away. They had two sons, Keith who died in 1986, and Ernest Preston (commonly called Preston) who founded the Reform Party of Canada. Ernest and Preston have both been honoured as Companions of the Order of Canada.


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