Allan Patterson

Reginald Allan Patterson (July 12, 1919 in Ottawa, Ontario - July 23, 2009 in Winnipeg, Manitoba^[1]) was a politician in the Canadian province of Manitoba. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1988 to 1990, representing the northeast Winnipegriding of Radisson for the Manitoba Liberal Party.^[2]

The son of Harold Allan Patterson and Emma Lucille Denny, he was educated in Capreol, in Barrie, at the Ontario Agricultural College, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Minnesota. He was a lecturer at the University of Western Ontario's School of Business Administration from 1967 to 1969, and a professor in the Faculty of Management at the University of Manitoba from 1974 to 1988. Before teaching, Patterson was employed with the Dominion Rubber Company Limited Tire Division in Kitchener and Winnipeg and the T. Eaton Co. Limited in Winnipeg.^[3] He was also a National Executive Member of the Canadian Industrial Relations Association, and served as the Manitoba Liberal Party's Chief Financial Officer.

Patterson married Edith Charlotte Freed.^[3]

Patterson first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1986, finishing third in Radisson with 1,239 votes (incumbent New DemocratGerard Lecuyer was re-elected with 4,810 votes). Two years later, in the provincial election of 1988, Patterson defeated Lecuyer by 1,805 votes.^[4] This was a period of increased support for the Liberals, who increased their parliamentary representation from one to twenty in the 1988 election.

Este aumento en el apoyo a los liberales resultó ser transitorio, y Patterson fue derrotado en las elecciones provinciales de 1990 , quedando en tercer lugar ^{[ 4 ]} con 1925 votos. La neodemócrata Marianne Cerilli recuperó el distrito electoral para su partido con 4055 votos. Después de esto, Patterson no buscó regresar a la vida política.

Posteriormente, Patterson fue miembro de la junta directiva de la Biblioteca Pública de Winnipeg . ^{[ 3 ]}

Murió en el Hospital St. Boniface a la edad de 90 años. ^{[ 3 ]}