Henry Woo | |
Birth Date: | 18 March 1929 |
Birth Place: | Lethbridge, Alberta[1] |
Office: | MLA for Edmonton-Sherwood Park |
Term Start: | 1979 |
Term End: | 1986 |
Predecessor: | New District |
Successor: | District Abolished |
Party: | Progressive Conservative |
Henry Woo ((March 18, 1929 – November 24, 2014) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He was born in Lethbridge, Alberta and he served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1986. During his time in the legislature he sat in the back benches as a member of the governing Progressive Conservative party.
Woo ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1979 Alberta general election. He won the new electoral district of Edmonton-Sherwood Park to pick it up for the governing Progressive Conservatives.[2]
In the 2nd Legislative Session Woo presented a petition of over 11,000 signatures to the Assembly to prevent the City of Edmonton annexing Strathcona County.[3]
Woo ran for a second term in the 1982 general election. He won re-election with a very high plurality of votes.[4] He retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the legislature in 1986. Woo died at the age of 85 on November 24, 2014.[5] [6]