{{Short description|Canadian politician (born 1940)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Albert Klapstein | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = 200px | office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Leduc | term_start = 1997 | term_end = 2004 | predecessor = Terry Kirkland | successor = district abolished | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1940|11|28}} | birth_place = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | death_date = {{Death date|2023|04|15}} | death_place = | party = Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta | other_party = | children = | occupation = }} '''Albert Klapstein''' (born November 28, 1940) is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1997 until 2004.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_iIAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Klapstein,+albert%22+1940|title = The Canadian Parliamentary Guide|year = 1999|isbn = 9780787635602}}</ref>
==Political career== Klapstein was elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1997 Alberta general election. He defeated incumbent Liberal MLA Terry Kirkland in a hotly contested election to pick up the Leduc electoral district for the Progressive Conservatives.<ref name="elec1">{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/database/maps_choice.asp?Year=1997&Constit=Leduc |title=Leduc Official results 1997 Alberta general election |publisher=Alberta Heritage |accessdate=2008-03-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612160501/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/database/maps_choice.asp?Year=1997&Constit=Leduc |archivedate=2011-06-12 }}</ref> He was reelected to his second term, winning a landslide in the 2001 Alberta general election.<ref name="elec2">{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/database/maps_choice.asp?Year=2001&Constit=Leduc |title=Leduc Official results 2001 Alberta general election |publisher=Alberta Heritage |accessdate=2008-03-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612160514/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/database/maps_choice.asp?Year=2001&Constit=Leduc |archivedate=2011-06-12 }}</ref>
Klapstein was appointed as an ex officio member by Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development Shirley McClellan in July 2000. This appointment came under investigation by the ethics commissioner Robert Clark in 2003 as a breach of the ''Conflict of Interest Act''. After the investigation, Klapstein was found to have breached the Act but no penalties were imposed.<ref name="breach">{{cite web | url=https://www.ethicscommissioner.ab.ca/media/1049/klapstein03.pdf|date=March 4, 2003 | author=Robert Clark|title=Investigation into Allegations Involving Albert Klapstein Member for Leduc|publisher=Office of the Alberta Ethics Commissioner|accessdate=2008-03-22}}</ref>
Klapstein did not run for reelection at the dissolution of the assembly in 2004 after losing the nomination race for the new riding of Leduc-Beaumont-Devon to George Rogers.
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20101026192825/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Klapstein, Albert}} Category:1940 births Category:Living people Category:Politicians from Edmonton Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Category:21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
{{Alberta-MLA-stub}}