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About Herbert Sulkers
- Herbert Sulkers (September 25, 1889—October 16, 1948) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1936 to 1941, as a representative of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF).Sulkers was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and received his early education in that city.
- He came to Canada in 1907, and continued his education in Winnipeg.
- Sulkers worked as a florist, and was president of the Manitoba Vegetable Growers Association.
- From 1924 to 1936, he served as a school trustee.
- In 1912, he married Gertrude Bergman.
- Sulkers also served as president of the Manitoba Sugar Beet Growers' Association.In the 1935 federal election, Sulkers ran as a candidate of the federal Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Springfield.
- He finished a close second against Liberal candidate John Mouat Turner.Sulkers was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1936 provincial election, in which the CCF ran a joint campaign with the provincial Independent Labour Party (ILP).
- He defeated Liberal-Progressive cabinet minister Robert Hoey by 665 votes. The CCF entered an all-party coalition government in 1940, and Sulkers briefly served as a government backbencher.
- He was defeated by Liberal-Progressive candidate Nicholas Stryk in the 1941 provincial election.He died at home in Winnipeg at the age of 59.
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