{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{about||the Irish rugby union player.|Frederick Kidd (rugby union)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = FREDKIDD.gif | image_size = 150px
| | name = Frederick Alexander Kidd | caption = | birth_date = July 29, 1921 | birth_place = Nordegg, Alberta | death_date = March 22, 1997 | office = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta | constituency = Banff | term_start = 1975 | term_end = 1979 | predecessor =Clarence Copithorne | successor =Greg Stevens | party = Progressive Conservative | spouse = Helen Kidd | occupation = Geologist }} '''Frederick Alexander Kidd''' (July 29, 1921 – March 22, 1997) was a provincial level politician and Geologist from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the governing Progressive Conservative caucus from 1975 to 1979.
==Early life== Frederick Alexander Kidd was born in Nordegg, Alberta. He grew up in south western Alberta and became a geologist.<ref name="geo">{{cite book|title=Frederick Alexander Kidd |publisher=Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology|date=September 2004 |work=v. 52; no. 3|author=Ralph W. Edie}}</ref>
==Political career== Kidd ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1975 Alberta election. He was elected to represent the renamed electoral district of Banff with a landslide victory over three other candidates.<ref name="elec1">{{cite web |url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1975&Constit=Banff |title=Banff election results 1975 |publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation |accessdate=October 4, 2009 |archive-date=June 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612222150/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1975&Constit=Banff |url-status=dead }}</ref> He served in the back benches of the governing Progressive Conservative caucus until 1979. During his service he served on a number of committees. He did not run for a second term in office when the legislature was dissolved in 1979.<ref name="deathnotice">{{cite hansard|house=Legislative Assembly of Alberta|url=https://www.assembly.ab.ca/Documents/isysquery/6b82538f-a137-4650-afa4-ed87a1fae67f/1/doc/19970416_1330_01_han.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230626081651/https://www.assembly.ab.ca/Documents/isysquery/6b82538f-a137-4650-afa4-ed87a1fae67f/1/doc/19970416_1330_01_han.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 26, 2023|date=April 16, 1997|page=9}}</ref>
He died on March 22, 1997.<ref name="deathnotice"/>
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024650/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kidd, Frederick}} Category:1921 births Category:1997 deaths Category:People from Clearwater County, Alberta Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta