Jim Edwards

This article is about the Canadian politician. For other people known as Jim Edwards, see James Edwards (disambiguation).

Jim Edwards PC

Member of the Canadian Parliament for Edmonton South
In office 1984–1988
Preceded by	Douglas Roche
Succeeded by	riding dissolved
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Edmonton Southwest
In office 1988–1993
Preceded by	first member
Succeeded by	Ian McClelland
President of the Treasury Board
In office 1993–1993
Preceded by	Gilles Loiselle
Succeeded by	Art Eggleton
Personal details
Born	James Stewart Edwards 1936
Political party	Progressive Conservative

James Stewart "Jim" Edwards, PC (born 1936) is a former Canadian politician.

He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1984 general election as a Progressive Conservative from Alberta. He served as a parliamentary secretary to several ministers in the government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Following Mulroney's resignation as PC leader and prime minister in 1993, Edwards was a candidate at the PC leadership convention held to choose a successor. He placed third.

He was appointed chief government Whip and President of the Treasury Board in the short lived cabinet of Prime Minister Kim Campbell. He lost his seat in that year's 1993 election that reduced the Tories to only two Members of Parliament in the House.

Edwards was the president and CEO of Economic Development Edmonton from 1998 to 2002 and served as the chair of the board of governors at the University of Alberta from March 2002 to 2006.

External links

Jim Edwards – Parliament of Canada biography

Cabinet of Prime Minister Kim Campbell (1993)

Perrin Beatty Pierre Blais Pauline Browes Kim Campbell Jean Charest Mary Collins Jean Corbeil Paul Dick Jim Edwards Tom Hockin Monique Landry Doug Lewis Gilles Loiselle Peter McCreath Charles Mayer Lowell Murray Rob Nicholson Ross Reid Larry Schneider Tom Siddon Bobbie Sparrow Garth Turner Bernard Valcourt Pierre H. Vincent Gerry Weiner

Presidents of the Treasury Board

Benson Drury Chrétien Andras Buchanan Stevens Johnston Gray Cotret Mazankowski Carney Lewis (acting) Cotret Loiselle Edwards Eggleton Massé Robillard Alcock Baird Toews Day Clement Brison

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