William "Bill" Russell Wyse | |
Birth Date: | 15 January 1934 |
Birth Place: | Castor, Alberta[1] |
Constituency: | Medicine Hat-Redcliff |
Term Start: | August 30, 1971 |
Term End: | March 25, 1975 |
Predecessor: | Harry Leinweber |
Successor: | Jim Horsman |
Party: | Social Credit |
William Russell Wyse (born January 15, 1934) is a former politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1975 as a member of the Social Credit Party.
Wyse first ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1971 general election, as the Social Credit candidate in the electoral district of Medicine Hat-Redcliff. He defeated Progressive Conservative candidate Jim Horsman and two other candidates.[2] Wyse and Horsman faced each other again in the 1975 election; Horsman defeated Wyse by over 100 votes.[3]