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Place of Birth: Tisdale, Saskatchewan, Canada
About John Rissler Messer
- John Rissler "Jack" Messer (born May 26, 1941) is a farmer and former political figure in Saskatchewan.
- He represented Kelsey from 1967 to 1971, Tisdale-Kelsey from 1971 to 1975 and Kelsey-Tisdale from 1975 to 1980 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member. He was born in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, the son of William Frederick Messer and Margaret Elizabeth Rissler, and was educated there and in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- Messer worked in real estate in Vancouver before continuing his studies at the University of British Columbia and the University of Saskatchewan.
- He then returned to Tisdale and settled on a farm near the town.
- In 1960, he married Joanne Bryson, the daughter of Hugh Alexander Bryson.
- He was secretary of the Tisdale Wheat Pool Committee and a director for the Evington Rural Telephone Company.
- Messer served in the Saskatchewan cabinet as Minister of Agriculture, as Minister of Industry and Commerce and as Minister of Mineral Resources.
- He resigned from cabinet and the assembly in 1980.
- In 1990, Messer became provincial secretary for the Saskatchewan NDP.
- From 1991 to 1998, he was president of SaskPower.
- He then returned to farming.
- Messer has also served as a director for Ducks Unlimited Canada and was the organizations' president from 2003 to 2004.
- He lives in Tisdale, as of 2012.
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