Editing Ernest Manning (section)

{{Short description|Premier of Alberta from 1943 to 1968}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix    = [[The Honourable]]
| name                = Ernest Manning
| honorific_suffix    = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|CC|AOE|size=100%}}
| image               = Ernest Manning.jpg
| caption             = Manning in 1943
| order               = 8th
| office              = Premier of Alberta
| term_start          = May 31, 1943
| term_end            = December 12, 1968
| predecessor         = [[William Aberhart]]
| successor           = [[Harry Strom|Harry E. Strom]]
| monarch             = [[George VI]]<br />[[Elizabeth II]]
| lieutenant_governor = [[John C. Bowen]]<br />[[John J. Bowlen]]<br />[[John Percy Page]]<br />[[Grant MacEwan]]
| office1              = [[Senate of Canada|Senator]] for Edmonton West
| appointed1           = [[Pierre Trudeau]]
| term_start1          = October 7, 1970
| term_end1            = September 20, 1983
| office2              = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]]
| term_start2          = June 18, 1959
| term_end2            = December 11, 1968
| predecessor2         = ''District established''
| successor2           = [[William Yurko]]
| constituency2        = [[Strathcona East]]
| term_start3          = March 21, 1940
| term_end3            = June 18, 1959
| predecessor3         = [[William R. Howson|William Howson]]
| successor3           = ''District abolished''
| constituency3        = [[Edmonton (provincial electoral district)|Edmonton]]
| term_start4          = November 4, 1935
| term_end4            = March 21, 1940
| predecessor4         = [[William Henry Ross|William Ross]]<br />[[Hugh Farthing]]<br />[[Norman Hindsley]]
| successor4           = [[Andrew Davison]]<br />William Aberhart<br />[[James Mahaffey]]
| constituency4        = [[Calgary (provincial electoral district)|Calgary]]
| birth_name           = Ernest Charles Manning
| birth_date           = {{birth date|1908|9|20}}
| birth_place          = [[Carnduff]], [[Saskatchewan]], Canada
| death_date           = {{death date and age|1996|02|19|1908|09|20}}
| death_place          = [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], Canada
| party                = 
[[Social Credit Party of Canada]] (federal)<br />[[Social Credit Party of Alberta]] (provincial)
| otherparty          = 
| spouse              = {{marriage|Muriel Aileen Preston|1936}}
| children            = 2, including [[Preston Manning|Preston]]
| signature           = Ernest Manning Signature.svg
| allegiance          = [[Canada]]
| branch              = [[Canadian Militia#World Wars and Interwar period|Canadian Militia]]
| serviceyears       = 1939–1943
| rank               = [[Captain (Canada)|Captain]]
| unit               = [[The Loyal Edmonton Regiment (4th Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry)|Edmonton Regiment]]
| battles            = [[World War II]]
}}

'''Ernest Charles Manning''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|CC|AOE}} (September 20, 1908 – February 19, 1996) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] politician and the eighth [[premier of Alberta]] between 1943 and 1968 for the [[Social Credit Party of Alberta]]. He served longer than any other premier in the province's history and was the second longest-serving provincial premier in [[History of Canada|Canadian history]] (after [[George Henry Murray]] of [[Nova Scotia]]).

Manning's 25 consecutive years as premier were defined by strong [[social conservatism]] and [[fiscal conservatism]]. He was also the only member of the [[Social Credit Party of Canada]] to sit in the [[Senate of Canada|Senate]] and, with the party shut out of the [[House of Commons of Canada|House of Commons]] in 1980, was its last representative in Parliament when he retired from the Senate in 1983.

Manning's son, [[Preston Manning]], was the founder and leader of the [[Reform Party of Canada]] who served as the federal [[Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)|leader of the Official Opposition]] from 1997 to 2000.<ref name=Britannica>{{cite web | url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Preston-Manning | title=Preston Manning: Canadian politician | publisher=Encyclopaedia Britannica }}</ref>