Wallace Warren Cross Explained

Wallace Warren Cross
Birth Date:23 September 1887
Death Place:Edmonton, Alberta
Birth Place:Barrie, Ontario
Office:Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
Constituency:Hand Hills
Term Start:1935
Term End:1959
Predecessor:Gordon Forster
Successor:Clinton Keith French
Party:Social Credit

Wallace Warren Cross (September 23, 1887 – August 4, 1973) was a medical doctor and long-serving politician from Alberta, Canada.

Cross was elected in the 1935 Alberta general election for the Alberta Social Credit Party for the Hand Hills district. He served six terms in office, retiring from provincial politics in 1959.

Cross became minister of health under Premier William Aberhart. During his time as minister, he opened a series of cancer clinics across the province, and actively focused the Department of Health's resources on cancer treatment. He died in Edmonton in 1973.[1]

The Cross Cancer Institute, which opened in 1968, is named in his honour.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs. 9780802021540. Saywell. John T.. 1973.