{{Short description|Canadian politician (1940–2021)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = Replace this image male.svg <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE --> | image_size = 150px | name = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1940|5|27}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|2021|4|14|1940|5|27}} | death_place = Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | office = MLA for Edmonton-Meadowlark | term_start = 2001 | term_end = 2004 | predecessor = Karen Leibovici | successor = Maurice Tougas | party = Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta | alma_mater = University of Alberta | occupation = educator }} '''Robert Maskell''' (May 27, 1940<ref>Edmonton--Meadowlark: [Final Edition] Edmonton Journal; Edmonton, Alta. [Edmonton, Alta]13 Mar 2001: A5.</ref><ref>[https://www.trinityfuneralhome.ca/obituary/bob-maskell/ Bob Maskell] obituary</ref> – April 14, 2021) was a teacher and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 until 2004.
==Early life== Maskell earned a Bachelor of Education degree at the University of Alberta. He became a teacher and then a principal at Jasper Place Composite High School and moved on to become the principal at the prestigious Victoria School of Performing and Visual Arts.<ref name="boardbio">{{cite web|url=http://www.affta.ab.ca/bob-maskell.shtml |title=Bob Maskell biography |publisher=Alberta Foundation for the Arts |accessdate=2008-03-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022065804/http://affta.ab.ca/bob-maskell.shtml |archivedate=2007-10-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Political career== Maskell was elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 2001 Alberta general election. He defeated incumbent Liberal MLA Karen Leibovici to pick up Edmonton-Meadowlark for the Progressive Conservatives.<ref name="elec1">{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/database/maps_choice.asp?Year=2001&Constit=Edmonton-Meadowlark|title=Edmonton-Meadowlark Official Results 2001|publisher=Alberta Heritage|accessdate=2008-03-19|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612201436/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/database/maps_choice.asp?Year=2001&Constit=Edmonton-Meadowlark|archivedate=2011-06-12}}</ref> He ran for a second term in office in the 2004 Alberta general election but was defeated by less than a couple hundred votes by Maurice Tougas a candidate for the Liberals.<ref name="elec2">{{cite web|url=http://www.elections.ab.ca/Public%20Website/files/Statements/36.pdf |format=PDF| title=Alberta general election 2004 Statement of Official Results Edmonton Meadowlark | publisher=Elections Alberta|accessdate=2008-03-21}}</ref>
Maskell tried to regain his seat in the 2012 Alberta general election, losing out to Liberal Leader Raj Sherman by 118 votes. He died in 2021.<ref>[https://edmontonjournal.remembering.ca/obituary/robert-maskell-1082080262 Robert Maskell obituary]</ref>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20101026192825/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maskell, Bob}} Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Category:1940 births Category:2021 deaths Category:University of Alberta alumni Category:21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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