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About Reginald Wightman
- Reginald Frederick Wightman (May 28, 1899 – January 23, 1981) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1949 to 1958.Wightman was born in Nesbitt, Manitoba.
- He was educated at Manitoba University, which later became the University of Manitoba.
- He worked as a pharmacist, and was the owner and operator of several pharmacies in the Winnipeg area.
- He began his political career at the municipal level, serving as chair of the St.
- James School Board for four years, and as a councillor for six years.
- Wightman became Mayor of St.
- James in 1945, and continued to serve as the mayor of the suburb even after his election to the provincial legislature.
- In 1928, he married Alice Maud Thring.He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1949 provincial election, defeating incumbent Cooperative Commonwealth Federation MLA Ernest R.
- Draffin by 1,214 votes in the constituency of Assiniboia.
- He was re-elected in the 1953 election, defeating CCF challenger Alvin Mackling by 281 votes.
- Wightman was a backbench supporter of Douglas Campbell's government during his time in the legislature. The Liberal-Progressives lost power following the 1958 provincial election, following a large-scale electoral redistribution.
- Wightman was defeated in the redistributed constituency of St.
- James, losing to Progressive Conservative Douglas Stanes by 476 votes. Wightman returned to municipal politics after his provincial defeat.
- In 1969, he became the first finance committee chair of the new city of St.
- James–Assiniboia.He died in Winnipeg at the age of 81.His son, Reginald C.
- Wightman, is also a public figure in Winnipeg.
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