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Like his predecessors, Manning and William Aberhart, Strom was an evangelical Christian and social conservative.
Strom was the last Social Credit Premier of Alberta before the party was wiped out by the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party of Peter Lougheed. He remained as Leader of the OppositionThe Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest opposition party in a Westminster System of parliamentary government. The Leader of the Opposition is invariably seen as the alternative Prime Minister to the present until 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led and retired from politics in 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i.
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