Clifford Wright (mayor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
About Clifford Wright (mayor)
- Clifford Emerson Wright, (September 21, 1927 – December 9, 2014) was the Mayor of Saskatoon from 1976 to 1988 and the first Mayor of Saskatoon to have been born in the city. He was a member of the Saskatoon City Council from 1967 until he was elected Mayor in 1976.
- He served for four successive terms until 1988.
- From 1989 to 1993 he served as a Treaty Commissioner.
- He was also Chair of the Saskatoon Health Board during the 1990s.In 1988 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan.
- In 1998 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition of "his contributions to province and country".
- In 1999 he was awarded the Saskatchewan Order of Merit [1]. Wright died from lung cancer while in palliative care at a Saskatoon hospital on December 9, 2014, aged 87.Wright was married to Betty and had four children.
- His grandson James Wright is an ice hockey forward who played for the Winnipeg Jets.
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