{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = <!-- only free-content images are allowed for depicting living people - see WP:NONFREE --> | name = Calvin Pedersen | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|MLANU|size=100%}} | caption = | birth_date = | birth_name = Calvin Aivgak Pedersen | birth_place = | office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut for Kugluktuk | term_start = July 24, 2020 | term_end = September 20, 2021 | predecessor = Mila Adjukak Kamingoak | successor = Bobby Anavilok | party = non-partisan<br />consensus government | occupation = }}
'''Calvin Avigak Pedersen''' is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut in July 2020.<ref>Derek Neary, [https://nunavutnews.com/nunavut-news/new-mlas-acclaimed-in-baker-lake-kugluktuk-race-set-for-pangnirtung-mayor/ "New MLAs acclaimed in Baker Lake, Kugluktuk; race set for Pangnirtung mayor"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726145859/https://nunavutnews.com/nunavut-news/new-mlas-acclaimed-in-baker-lake-kugluktuk-race-set-for-pangnirtung-mayor/ |date=2020-07-26 }}. ''Nunavut News'', July 24, 2020.</ref> Representing the electoral district of Kugluktuk, he was directly acclaimed to office as the only by-election candidate to register by the nomination deadline following the resignation of his predecessor Mila Adjukak Kamingoak. He lost his reelection bid in the 2021 Nunavut general election.
He is the grandson of former MLA and Kugluktuk mayor Red Pedersen. His grandmother, Lena Pedersen was the first woman elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories in the Northwest Territories 1970 election.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2020-07-27 |title=Another generation of the Pedersen family enters the legislative assembly |url=https://www.nunavutnews.com/nunavut-news/another-generation-of-the-pedersen-family-enters-the-legislative-assembly-7279326 |access-date=2024-07-25 |work=Nunavut News |archive-date=2024-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240725155958/https://www.nunavutnews.com/nunavut-news/another-generation-of-the-pedersen-family-enters-the-legislative-assembly-7279326 |url-status=live }}</ref>
He is currently working for Polar Knowledge Canada.
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