The Honourable Edgar Peter Lougheed PC, CC, AOE, QC, BA, LL.B, MBA, LL.D
10th Premier of Alberta
In office September 10, 1971 – November 1, 1985
Preceded by	Harry E. Strom
Succeeded by	Don Getty
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Calgary West
In office May 23, 1967 – February 28, 1986
Preceded by	Donald S. Fleming
Succeeded by	Elaine McCoy
Personal details
Born	(1928-07-26) July 26, 1928 (age 83) Calgary, Alberta
Political party	Progressive Conservative
Spouse(s)	Jeanne Lougheed (née Rogers)
Children	Stephen, Andrea, Pamela, and Joseph
Residence	Calgary
Alma mater	University of Alberta, Harvard University
Profession	Lawyer
Religion	Anglican
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Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, ( /ˈlɔːhiːd/ LAW-heed; born July 26, 1928) is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985, and is widely considered one of the greatest premiers in Canadian history^[1].

Lougheed is the grandson of Sir James Alexander Lougheed. In 1950, he received a BA degree, and in 1952, he received a LL.B degree, both from the University of Alberta. While in Edmonton as a student, he played football for the Edmonton Eskimos (for two seasons, 1949 and 1950) and served as President of the Students' Union and of the Alberta Chapter of Delta Upsilon. In 1954, he received a MBA degree from Harvard University.

In 1965, he was elected leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party. The party won the 1971 provincial election, with 49 of the 75 seats in the legislature, defeating the Social Credit Party which had governed the province since the 1935 election. Lougheed established a Tory dynasty in the province that has continued uninterrupted since then. Lougheed led his party to victory in the 1975, 1979 and 1982 provincial elections.

As premier, Lougheed 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. Lougheed quarrelled with Pierre Trudeau's federal Liberal government over its 1980 introduction of the National Energy Program. But Lougheed and Trudeau eventually reached an agreement for energy revenue sharing in 1982, after hard bargaining. The successful Calgary bid to host the 1988 Winter Olympics was developed during Lougheed's terms.

From 1996–2002, Lougheed served as Chancellor of Queen's University.

Lougheed currently sits on the boards of a variety of organizations and corporations. In a 2012 edition, the Institute for Research on Public Policy's magazine, Policy Options, named Lougheed the best Canadian premier of the last forty years.^[2]