Chester Reynolds | |
Birth Name: | Chester Ambrose Reynolds |
Birth Date: | 24 September 1902 |
Death Place: | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
Birth Place: | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
Constituency: | Stettler |
Term Start: | March 21, 1940 |
Term End: | August 7, 1944 |
Predecessor: | Charles Cockroft |
Successor: | William S. Mackie |
Party: | Social Credit Party of Alberta |
Relatives: | Ryan Reynolds (grandson) |
Occupation: | Farmer |
Children: | 4 |
Chester Ambrose Reynolds (September 24, 1902 - May 1, 1983) was a Canadian provincial politician from Alberta. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1940 to 1944, sitting as a Social Credit member from the constituency of Stettler.[1]
Reynolds was born September 24, 1902, in Chicago, Illinois to William Francis Reynolds (1863–1949) and Elizabeth Frances Reynolds (Crowe; 1872–1949). The family immigrated to Canada in 1906; he was educated in Gadsby, Alberta.[1]
Reynolds was elected in the 1940 Alberta general election to the 9th Alberta Legislature for the constituency of Stettler as a member of the Social Credit Party. Reynolds received slightly over 50 percent of the vote, defeating his Independent opponent L. V. Lohr by 817 votes, and the Co-operative Commonwealth candidate H. H. Turner by 1,884 votes.[2] Reynolds did not contest the 1944 Alberta general election.
On June 29, 1938, Reynolds married Helen Long of Lacombe, Alberta.[1] He was the paternal grandfather of actor Ryan Reynolds.[3]