Premier of Alberta, Canada. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985 as a Progressive Conservative. His paternal grandfather was Sir James Lougheed, a successful lawyer, federal cabinet minister, and senator. Born Edgar Peter Lougheed, he was educated at the Strathcona School for Boys, Earl Grey School, Rideau Park School, and the Central Collegiate Institute, all in Calgary, Alberta. At the last of these, he proposed the formation of a students' union, and subsequently became its first president. He also excelled at sports, particularly football. Upon graduating from Central Collegiate, he enrolled at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and later a Bachelor of Laws Degree. He played football for the University of Alberta Golden Bears and, in 1949 and 1950, the Edmonton Eskimos. He also served as president of the Students' Union in 1951 through 1952 and was a writer in the sports section for "The Gateway," the University of Alberta student newspaper. In 1952 he married Jeanne Rogers, whom he met during his schooling and they moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he pursued a Master of Business Administration at Harvard University, which he earned in 1954. During this time, he worked for a summer with Gulf Oil Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. After finishing his degree at Harvard, he took a management position with Mannix Corporation, a Canadian construction firm, and eventually left it to establish a law practice. He decided to pursue a career in politics and in 1965 he was nominated and selected as the leader of the Progressive Conservative (PC) party. His first challenge as leader was a 1966 by-election in Pincher Creek-Crowsnest, a provincial electoral district in Alberta, which had been represented by Social Crediter party member William Kovach, who had died. While the PCs finished third, he viewed it as only a minor setback as his real focus was building up momentum for a general election due the following year. In that race, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary-West, and became the Leader of the Opposition. In 1968 Ernest Manning, a member of the Social Crediters party retired as Alberta's premier and was replaced by Harry Strom. Strom called for a snap election in August 1971 and Lougheed and the PCs swept the Social Crediters from power ending what was, at the time, one of the longest unbroken run in government at the provincial level in Canada. As premier, he furthered the development of the oil and gas resources, and started the Alberta Heritage Fund as a way of ensuring that the exploitation of non-renewable resources would be of long-term benefit to Alberta. He also introduced the Alberta Bill of Rights. He quarreled with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's federal Liberal government over its 1980 introduction of the National Energy Program, but they eventually reached an agreement for energy revenue sharing in 1982. The successful Calgary bid to host the 1988 Winter Olympics was developed during his tenure. He was reelected to three more consecutive terms and In 1985 he retired as premier and was replaced by PC member Don Getty. From 1996 to 2002 he served as Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. In his later years, he suffered from a heart condition and high blood pressure and in September 2012, he health deteriorated and he died of natural causes at the Peter Lougheed Medical Centre in Calgary at the age of 84. He was given the title of "The Honourable" for the duration of his membership in the Executive Council of Alberta from 1971 to 1986. When he was appointed a privy councilor on April 17, 1982, the title "The Honourable" was extended for life. In 1986, he was named a Companion of the Order of Canada, and in 1989 he was named to the Alberta Order of Excellence. In 2001 he was inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. The Peter Lougheed Provincial Park in Kananaskis, Alberta was named in his honor. In a 2012 edition, the Institute for Research on Public Policy's magazine, "Policy Options," named him the best Canadian premier of the last forty years. Also, the Jeannie and Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Center was constructed in Camrose, Alberta, Canada.