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About Wally Andersen
- Wally Andersen (born July 31, 1951) is a former Liberal Member of the House of Assembly in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- He was first elected in 1996 in the riding Torngat Mountains and was re-elected twice.
- His is currently Acting Mayor of Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The son of Edgar Andersen and Muriel Lucy, he was born in Makkovik, Labrador and was educated in North West River.
- In 1975, he married Marie Delaney.
- Andersen was manager for the government stores in Labrador from 1974 to 1996.
- He was a member of the council for Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
- Andersen served 12 years as president of the local hockey association.The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary charged Wally Anderson on July 23, 2007 with fraud, uttering a forged document and breach of trust in connection with the multimillion-dollar legislative spending scandal.
- He officially resigned from the legislature on September 5 of that year, leaving the Torngat Mountains riding vacant until the 2007 provincial election was called shortly thereafter.Andersen was released in December 2009 after serving three months of a 15-month sentence.In 2016, he won a by-election for the Happy Valley-Goose Bay town council defeating 3 other candidates.
- He was re-elected in the 2017 municipal elections, and became Deputy Mayor.
- Following the death of Mayor John Hickey in December 2017, Anderson became Acting Mayor of the town.
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