Executive Council of Saskatchewan - Members of the Executive Council of Saskatchewan, Colin Thatcher, George Hara Williams, Chris Axworthy (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Members of the Executive Council of Saskatchewan, Colin Thatcher, George Hara Williams, Chris Axworthy, Ron Osika, E. M. Culliton, John Archibald Maharg, John Hewgill Brockelbank, David Steuart, Joanne Crofford, Janice Mackinnon, Archibald Peter Mcnab, John Michael Uhrich, Thomas John Bentley, Cliff Mcisaac, Reginald John Marsden Parker, June Draude, Maynard Sonntag. Excerpt: Wilbert Colin Thatcher (born 25 August 1938 in Toronto) was a Canadian politician convicted for the murder of his ex-wife, JoAnn Wilson. Thatcher has always insisted he is innocent. Colin Thatcher is the son of Wilbert Ross Thatcher, premier of Saskatchewan from 1964 to 1971. Ross Thatcher began his political career with the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation but switched to the Liberal Party when the Liberals became more popular than the CCF. Colin began studying agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. After one year, he transferred to Iowa State University from which he graduated with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Agriculture; he then went to work on his father's ranch in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. After his father's death in 1971, Thatcher cultivated his own interest in politics. In 1975 he won the provincial riding of Thunder Creek on the Liberal Party ticket but defected to the Progressive Conservatives two years later when the Conservatives became more popular than the Liberals. The move was denounced by the Liberals, and also privately by his wife JoAnn, to whom Thatcher had been married since 1962. JoAnn felt disgraced by Thatcher's behaviour and their marriage began to disintegrate. Thatcher began a number of extramarital relationships which he made little effort to hide from public scrutiny. When confronted by these indiscretions by JoAnn, Thatcher is reporte... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=457558