Jack Murta

{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]] | name = Jack Burnett Murta | honorific_suffix = [[King's Privy Council for Canada|PC]] | image = | image_size = | constituency_MP = [[Lisgar (electoral district)|Lisgar]] | parliament = Canadian | predecessor = [[George Muir (politician)|George Muir]] | successor = District was abolished in 1987 | term_start = 1970 | term_end = 1988 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|05|13}} | birth_place = [[Carman, Manitoba|Carman]], [[Manitoba]], Canada | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | party = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = Minister of State (Multiculturalism) (1984-1985)<br />Minister of State (Tourism) (1985-1986) | portfolio = Parliamentary Secretary to the President of the Treasury Board (1979) }} '''Jack Burnett Murta''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (born May 13, 1943) is a former [[Canadians|Canadian]] politician.

Born in [[Carman, Manitoba]], the son of John James Murta and Jean (Burnett) Murta, he graduated from the Diploma course in [[Agriculture]] at the [[University of Manitoba]] in 1964.

In 1970, he was elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] in a by-election for the riding of [[Lisgar (electoral district)|Lisgar]] following the death of the previous incumbent, [[George Muir (politician)|George Muir]]. He was re-elected in [[1972 Canadian federal election|1972]], [[1974 Canadian federal election|1974]], [[1979 Canadian federal election|1979]], [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980]], and [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984]].

He was [[Parliamentary Secretary]] to the President of the Treasury Board in the short lived government of [[Joe Clark]] in 1979. In the [[Brian Mulroney]] government he was [[Minister of State (Canada)|Minister of State]] (Multiculturalism) from 1984 to 1985 and Minister of State (Tourism) from 1985 to 1986.

==Electoral record== {{CanElec1-by|16 November 1970}} {{CANelec|CA|PC|Jack Murta |11,222}} {{CANelec|CA|Liberal|Ken R. Hanssen | 4,444}} {{CANelec|CA|NDP|Garry Enns |1,814}} {{CANelec|CA|Social Credit|John L. Harms|1,730}} {{CANelec|CA|Independent|George G. Elias |377}} {{end}}

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==References== * {{cite web|title=Jack Burnett Murta |work=University of Manitoba |url=http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/ead/html/Murta.shtml |access-date=March 20, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309102019/http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/ead/html/Murta.shtml |archive-date=March 9, 2005 |url-status=dead }} * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=8039}}

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