{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2024}} {{Use Canadian English|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Herbert Thomas Hargrave | birth_name = | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1917|3|30}} | birth_place = [[Medicine Hat]], [[Alberta]], Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|1996|9|24|1917|3|30}} | death_place = [[Medicine Hat]], [[Alberta]], Canada | spouse = Amy Reinhardt | riding = [[Medicine Hat (federal electoral district)|Medicine Hat]] | predecessor = [[Bud Olson]] | successor = [[Robert Harold Porter]] | term_start = 1972 | term_end = 1984 | profession = Rancher | party = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] | footnotes = | website = }} '''Herbert Thomas Hargrave''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|MBE}} (March 30, 1917 – September 24, 1996) was a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative party]] member of the [[House of Commons of Canada]]. He represented the [[Electoral district (Canada)|riding]] of [[Medicine Hat—Cardston—Warner|Medicine Hat]] from 1972 to 1984.
==Early life== Hargrave was born in Medicine Hat on March 30, 1917, the sixth child of Thomas Albert Hargrave and Mary Hope Whimster.<ref>{{cite book |last=Williams |first1=Luetta Ross |title=The Hargrave Family 1749-1923 |url=https://kermitmurray.com/genealogy/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Hargrave_Family_1923.pdf |url-status=live |year=1923 |page=31 |quote=Information obtained by James Hargrave of Medicine Hat |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240803135431/https://kermitmurray.com/genealogy/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Hargrave_Family_1923.pdf |archive-date=August 3, 2024 |access-date=August 3, 2024}}</ref> He received a [[Bachelor of Science]] in agricultural engineering from the [[University of Saskatchewan]] in 1942. During the World War II, he was a captain with the [[Corps of Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca/aoe/hargrave.cfm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20040110220628/http://www.lieutenantgovernor.ab.ca/aoe/hargrave.cfm |archivedate=2004-01-10 |title=Herbert Thomas Hargrave |publisher=Alberta Order of Excellence Council |date=2003 |url-status=live|accessdate=2015-12-02 }}</ref>
==Political career== Hargrave represented Alberta's [[Medicine Hat (federal electoral district)|Medicine Hat electoral district]] where he first won national office in the [[1972 Canadian federal election|1972 federal election]]. He was re-elected there in the [[1974 Canadian federal election|1974]], [[1979 Canadian federal election|1979]] and [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980 federal election]]s. He retired from federal politics after this after serving in the [[29th Canadian Parliament|29th]], [[30th Canadian Parliament|30th]], [[31st Canadian Parliament|31st]] and [[32nd Canadian Parliament]]s.<ref name="Library of Parliament">{{cite web |url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/parlinfo/Files/Parliamentarian.aspx?Item=074c5f79-285c-48cd-b661-069bf3c4d46f&Language=E&Section=ALL |title=HARGRAVE, Herbert Thomas (Bert), M.B.E., B.Sc., P.Eng., P.Ag. |accessdate=2015-12-02 }}</ref> He did not seek re-election in [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Jang |first=Phillip |date=January 21, 1984 |title=Injury starts, ends career |url= |work=[[Calgary Herald]] |page=A15 |location=Medicine Hat, Alberta |access-date=}}</ref>
==Later life== Following several years of declining health, he died at Central Park Lodge in Medicine Hat on September 24, 1996. He was 79.<ref>{{cite news |last=Brennan |first=Brian |date=October 2, 1996 |title=MP was voice for beef industry |url= |work=[[Calgary Herald]] |page=B6 |location=Calgary, Alberta |access-date=}}</ref>
==Awards and recognition==
In 1944, Hargrave was named a [[Order of the British Empire|Member of the British Empire]].<ref name="OrderofExcellence">{{cite web |url=https://www.alberta.ca/aoe-herbert-hargrave |url-status=live |title=Herbert Thomas Hargrave |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |website=The Alberta Order of Excellence |publisher=Government of Alberta |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240129033318/https://www.alberta.ca/aoe-herbert-hargrave |archive-date=January 29, 2024 |access-date=August 3, 2024 }}</ref>
In 1986, he was inducted into the [[Alberta Order of Excellence]].<ref name="OrderofExcellence"/>
In 1993, he was appointed to the Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/info2010?opendocument |url-status=deviated |title=Hargrave, Herbert Thomas (Bert) - 1993 Hall of Fame Inductee |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=<!--Not stated--> |website=Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry |publisher=Government of Alberta |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326154247/http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$Department/deptdocs.nsf/all/info2010?opendocument |archive-date=March 26, 2016 |accessdate=2015-12-02 }}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=417}}
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