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Place of Birth: Blue River, British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada
About Claude Richmond
- Claude Harry Richmond (born August 3, 1935) is a former BC Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
- He represented the riding of Kamloops from 1981 to 1991 and from 2001 to 2009. He was first elected as MLA for Kamloops in a by-election in 1981 to replace Rafe Mair.
- Richmond represented the riding for the Social Credit Party of British Columbia, serving in a variety of cabinet portfolios, until leaving politics in 1991.
- In his first term from 1981 to 1986, Kamloops was a single-member district; in his second term from 1986 to 1991 it was revised to a dual-member district, and Richmond served alongside Bud Smith. Richmond served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 2001 to 2005, succeeded by Bill Barisoff.
- He was subsequently appointed the Minister of Employment and Income Assistance. On May 9, 2008, he announced that he would not stand for re-election in the 2009 provincial election.
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