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A farmer by profession, Gordon Towers was an unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate in Red Deer, Alberta in the 1963 and 1965 federal elections. He finally won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1972 Canadian election and was re-elected four subsequent times. He did not run in the 1988 Canadian election.
In 1991 he was appointed to the position of Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta and served until 1996.
| Preceded by: Helen Hunley | List of Alberta lieutenant-governors | Succeeded by: Bud Olson |