John Glyndwr Ashton | |
Birth Date: | 31 March 1935 |
Birth Place: | Hanna, Alberta[1] |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
Constituency: | Edmonton-Ottewell |
Term Start: | 1971 |
Term End: | 1979 |
Predecessor: | New district |
Successor: | District abolished |
Party: | Progressive Conservative |
John Glyndwr Ashton (born March 31, 1935) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1975 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus.
Ashton ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1971 Alberta general election. He won the new electoral district of Edmonton-Ottewell in a landslide to pick it up for the Progressive Conservative party who went on to form government in that election.[2]
Ashton ran for a second term in office in the 1975 Alberta general election. He won an even larger victory defeating two other candidates to hold his seat.[3] He retired from provincial politics at dissolution of the Assembly in 1979.
He is the current President of Sherwood Park Heritage Mile Society.
The Book of John: A Life Story of John Glyndwr Ashton, published in 2022, chronicles John Glyndwr Ashton's Life.