Gordon Towers
Politician
1919 – 1999
Who was Gordon Towers?
Thomas Gordon Towers, AOE was a Canadian politician and the 13th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta.
A farmer by profession, Gordon Towers was an unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate in Red Deer, Alberta in the 1963 and 1965 federal elections.
He won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1972 election, and was re-elected four subsequent times. He did not run in the 1988 election. From 1984 to 1986, he was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Solicitor General of Canada. From 1986 to 1987, he was the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Science and Technology.
In 1991, he was appointed to the position of Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta, and served until 1996.
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