Jack Goohsen

Who is Jack Goohsen?

Jack Goohsen is a farmer and former political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada. He represented Maple Creek from 1991 to 1995 and Cypress Hills from 1995 to 1999 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Progressive Conservative and then independent member.

He was born in Gull Lake, Saskatchewan and studied agricultural management at the University of Saskatchewan. Goohsen established a farm in the Gull Lake area. He served on the council for the rural municipality of Carmichael, serving as reeve from 1981 to 1992. In 1997, Goohsen was arrested by the RCMP after they found him in his car with a teenage prostitute. He sat as an independent after the remaining Progressive Conservative members formed the Saskatchewan Party. Goohsen was found guilty of buying sex from an underage prostitute in April 1999 and resigned his seat shortly afterwards.