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B.C. PREMIERSS

Specialty Definition: List of British Columbia premiers

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This is a list of the premiers of British Columbia, Canada, since it joined Confederation in 1871.

Note that party politics were not introduced until 1903.

Premier	From	To	Party
John Foster McCreight	1871-11-13	1872-12-23
Amor De Cosmos	1872-12-23	1874-02-11
George Anthony Walkem	1874-02-11	1876-02-01
Andrew Charles Elliott	1876-02-01	1878-06-25
George Anthony Walkem	1878-06-25	1882-06-13
Robert Beaven	1882-06-13	1883-01-29
William Smithe	1882-01-29	1887-05-01
Alexander Edmund Batson Davie	1887-05-01	1889-08-01
John Robson	1889-08-02	1892-06-29
Theodore Davie	1892-07-02	1895-03-04
John Herbert Turner	1895-03-04	1898-08-15
Charles Augustus Semlin	1898-08-15	1900-02-28
Joseph Martin	1900-02-28	1900-06-15
James Dunsmuir	1900-06-15	1902-11-21
Edward Gawler Prior	1902-11-21	1903-06-01
Richard McBride	1903-06-01	1915-12-15	Conservative
William John Bowser	1915-12-15	1916-11-23	Conservative
Harlan Carey Brewster	1916-11-23	1918-03-01	Liberal
John Oliver	1918-03-06	1927-08-17	Liberal
John Duncan MacLean	1927-08-20	1928-08-21	Liberal
Simon Fraser Tolmie	1928-08-21	1933-11-15	Conservative
Thomas Dufferin Pattullo	1933-11-15	1941-12-09	Liberal
John Hart	1941-12-09	1947-12-29	Coalition
Byron Ingemar Johnson	1947-12-29	1952-08-01	Coalition
William Andrew Cecil Bennett	1952-08-01	1972-09-15	Social Credit
David Barrett	1972-09-15	1975-12-22	NDP
William Richards Bennett	1975-12-22	1986-08-06	Social Credit
William N. Vander Zalm	1986-08-06	1991-04-02	Social Credit
Rita Johnston	1991-04-02	1991-11-05	Social Credit
Michael Harcourt	1991-11-05	1996-02-22	NDP
Glen Clark	1996-02-22	1999-08-25	NDP
Dan Miller	1999-08-25	2000-02-24	NDP
Ujjal Dosanjh	2000-02-24	2001-06-05	NDP
Gordon Campbell	2001-06-05	Present	Liberal

Other lists of first ministers:
Prime Minister - Alberta - Manitoba - N.B - Nfld.-Lab - N.S - Ontario - P.E.I - Quebec - Sask - Yukon - N.W.T - Nunavut

For more lists of this type, see Lists of incumbents.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "List of British Columbia premiers."

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