Ernest Manning

Ernest Charles Manning, PC CC AOE , a Canadian politician, was the eighth premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any other premier in the provinces history and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history . He was also the only member of the Social Credit Party of Canada to sit in the Senate and, with the party shut out of the House of Commons in 1980, was its very last representative in Parliament.

Manning was born in Carnduff, Saskatchewan, in 1908 to English immigrants George Henry Manning and Elizabeth Mara Dixon , and was raised on a farm. A devoted listener of the evangelistic radio broadcasts of future Premier William Aberhart, Manning enrolled in Aberharts Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute in 1927, becoming the first graduate of that institution.

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