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About Carl Nickle
- Lieutenant Carl Olof Nickle (July 12, 1914 in Winnipeg, Manitoba – December 5, 1990) was an editor and publisher, oil baron, soldier in the Canadian Army and served as a Canadian federal politician from 1951 to 1957. Nickle served a nine-year career in the Canadian Forces.
- He joined in 1939 and served in the Calgary Highlanders achieving the rank of Lieutenant.
- Nickle left the Army in 1948.
- Nickle first ran for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada in a by-election held in the electoral district of Calgary West on December 10, 1951.
- Nickle won the by-election and his first term in office by a comfortable margin.
- Calgary's electoral boundaries would be redistributed at the drop of the writ for the 1953 federal election.
- He would run in the new electoral district of Calgary South and be re-elected defeating 4 other candidates.
- He retired from federal politics at the end of his second term in 1957. Nickle was admitted to the Order of Canada in 1974.
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