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Doug Horner

Doug Horner
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President of Treasury Board & Minister of Finance in the Alberta government
In office
May 8, 2012 – September 15, 2014
Preceded by Ron Liepert
Succeeded by Robin Campbell
Deputy Premier of Alberta
In office
October 12, 2011 – May 8, 2012
Preceded by Vacancy
Succeeded by Thomas Lukaszuk
In office
January 15, 2010 – February 2011
Preceded by Vacant (Last held by Ron Stevens)
Succeeded by Vacancy
MLA for Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert
In office
2001–2012
Preceded by Colleen Soetaert
Succeeded by riding dissolved
MLA for Spruce Grove-St. Albert
In office
2012 – January 31, 2015
Preceded by first member
Succeeded by Trevor Horne
Personal details
Born (1961-01-17) January 17, 1961 (age 56)
Barrhead, Alberta
Political party Progressive Conservative
Occupation Businessman

Douglas Alan "Doug" Horner (born January 17, 1961) is a former Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Spruce Grove-St. Albert in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 until January 31, 2015. He was the President of the Treasury Board and Minister of Finance until Jim Prentice's cabinet was sworn in on September 15, 2014. He was a candidate for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party in its 2011 leadership election, placing third.

In 2006, when Ed Stelmach became premier, Horner was appointed Minister of Advanced Education and Technology. He retained the position in cabinet shuffle on January 13, 2010, and was also appointed to the position of Deputy Premier. He was first elected in the 2001 provincial election. He became the province's Minister of Agriculture in 2004 under Premier Ralph Klein. On January 22, 2015, he announced that he would be retiring as an MLA effective January 31, 2015.

Born in Barrhead, Alberta, to Jean and Dr. Hugh Horner, Doug Horner has lived in Calgary, Consort, Slave Lake, Morinville and Spruce Grove.

Horner comes from a politically active family; his grandfather, Ralph Horner, was a Senator for Saskatchewan, his father, Dr. Hugh Horner was a federal Member of Parliament under John Diefenbaker and then Alberta's agriculture minister and deputy premier in the 1970s while his uncles Jack Horner, Albert Horner and Norval Horner were also federal MPs.


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