This HTML5 document contains 121 embedded RDF statements represented using HTML+Microdata notation.

The embedded RDF content will be recognized by any processor of HTML5 Microdata.

Namespace Prefixes

PrefixIRI
dctermshttp://purl.org/dc/terms/
yago-reshttp://yago-knowledge.org/resource/
dbohttp://dbpedia.org/ontology/
foafhttp://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/
n18https://global.dbpedia.org/id/
yagohttp://dbpedia.org/class/yago/
schemahttp://schema.org/
dbthttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Template:
rdfshttp://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#
n16http://www.ontologydesignpatterns.org/ont/dul/DUL.owl#
freebasehttp://rdf.freebase.com/ns/
rdfhttp://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
owlhttp://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#
wikipedia-enhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
dbchttp://dbpedia.org/resource/Category:
provhttp://www.w3.org/ns/prov#
dbphttp://dbpedia.org/property/
xsdhhttp://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#
wikidatahttp://www.wikidata.org/entity/
goldhttp://purl.org/linguistics/gold/
dbrhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/

Statements

Subject Item
dbr:Alexander_Turk
rdf:type
yago:Peer109626238 yago:Person100007846 dbo:Person yago:Whole100003553 wikidata:Q729 yago:Object100002684 yago:Leader109623038 dbo:Eukaryote yago:Organism100004475 wikidata:Q5 yago:CouncilMember109944763 dbo:Animal yago:Politician110450303 yago:LivingThing100004258 schema:Person n16:NaturalPerson yago:Member110307234 yago:Associate109816771 dbo:Species wikidata:Q215627 yago:WikicatWinnipegCityCouncillors dbo:Politician yago:WikicatPeopleFromLarne yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo owl:Thing wikidata:Q19088 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 wikidata:Q82955 foaf:Person yago:CausalAgent100007347 dbo:OfficeHolder
rdfs:label
Alexander Turk
rdfs:comment
Alexander Turk (March 5, 1906 – January 1, 1988) was a professional wrestling promoter and politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1953 to 1958. Turk was on the left wing of the Liberal-Progressive Party. In 1954, he was the only member of the government caucus to support a CCF bill calling for comprehensive health insurance. The following year, he was the only Liberal-Progressive MLA to endorse a bill calling for progressive prison reforms.
foaf:name
Alexander Turk
dbp:name
Alexander Turk
dbo:birthPlace
dbr:Larne dbr:Northern_Ireland
dbo:deathDate
1988-01-01
dbp:birthPlace
dbr:Larne dbr:Northern_Ireland
dbo:birthDate
1906-03-05
dcterms:subject
dbc:People_from_Larne dbc:1906_births dbc:Winnipeg_city_councillors dbc:Manitoba_Liberal_Party_MLAs dbc:1988_deaths
dbo:wikiPageID
1974024
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
1085044024
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbr:Northern_Ireland dbr:Lou_Thesz dbr:Bruno_Sammartino dbr:Frank_Chester_(politician) dbr:Communist dbr:National_Wrestling_Alliance dbr:Stu_Hart dbc:1906_births dbr:Morris_Gray dbr:Winnipeg_City_Council dbr:Pat_O'Connor_(wrestler) dbr:Socialist dbr:Single_transferable_vote dbr:Professional_wrestling_promotion dbr:1959_Manitoba_general_election dbr:Winnipeg_North_(Manitoba_riding) dbr:Bill_Kardash dbr:Professional_wrestling dbr:Elmwood_(Manitoba_riding) dbc:Winnipeg_city_councillors dbr:American_Wrestling_Association dbr:Winnipeg dbr:Douglas_Lloyd_Campbell dbr:1953_Manitoba_general_election dbr:Manitoba_Cooperative_Commonwealth_Federation dbr:Communist_Party_of_Canada_-_Manitoba dbr:Manitoba dbc:Manitoba_Liberal_Party_MLAs dbr:J.M._Kozoriz dbr:Verne_Gagne dbr:Manitoba_Liberal_Party dbr:Legislative_Assembly_of_Manitoba dbr:Larne dbr:Haystacks_Calhoun dbr:Steve_Peters_(Manitoba_politician) dbc:1988_deaths dbr:1958_Manitoba_general_election dbc:People_from_Larne dbr:John_Hawryluk
owl:sameAs
wikidata:Q4720265 freebase:m.06b5hm n18:4Nvnw yago-res:Alexander_Turk
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbt:Use_dmy_dates dbt:Reflist dbt:Infobox_officeholder dbt:Short_description
dbp:birthDate
1906-03-05
dbp:constituency
dbr:Winnipeg_North_(Manitoba_riding)
dbp:deathDate
1988-01-01
dbp:office
dbr:Legislative_Assembly_of_Manitoba
dbp:party
dbr:Manitoba_Liberal_Party
dbp:predecessor
dbr:Frank_Chester_(politician)
dbp:profession
sports owner
dbp:residence
dbr:Manitoba dbr:Winnipeg
dbp:successor
riding dissolved
dbp:termEnd
1958
dbp:termStart
1953
dbo:abstract
Alexander Turk (March 5, 1906 – January 1, 1988) was a professional wrestling promoter and politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1953 to 1958. Born in Larne, Northern Ireland, the son of Nathaniel Turk and Mary O'Lynn, Turk came to Canada with his family in 1910 and was educated at Lord Selkirk School. In 1931, he married Annie Owens. He was a wrestling promoter and president of the Giants Baseball Club and was known in politics as a charismatic showman. Some credit him with introducing modern professional wrestling to Manitoba in 1946 with his company, the NWA-affiliated Alex Turk Promotions. In his later years, he would promote Verne Gagne, Pat O'Connor, Stu Hart, Bruno Sammartino, Haystacks Calhoun, Lou Thesz and others in the region. In 1961 and 1962, he promoted wrestling events for the American Wrestling Association. In 1963, he left the AWA and ran shows in competition with the AWA for several years. He was eventually pushed out of business by competition from the American Wrestling Association. Turk's election to the Manitoba legislature was somewhat unexpected. In the 1953 election, he ran as a candidate of the Liberal-Progressive Party in Winnipeg North, a constituency dominated by the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and the communist Labour Progressive Party. He finished seventh out of eleven candidates on the multi-member constituency's first count, behind two other Liberal-Progressive candidates. He did well on transfers, however, and defeated fellow Liberal-Progressive J.M. Kozoriz for the final position. In the legislature, he served as a backbench supporter of Douglas Campbell's government. Turk was on the left wing of the Liberal-Progressive Party. In 1954, he was the only member of the government caucus to support a CCF bill calling for comprehensive health insurance. The following year, he was the only Liberal-Progressive MLA to endorse a bill calling for progressive prison reforms. Winnipeg's multi-member constituencies were eliminated in the 1958 election, and Turk lost to Steve Peters of the CCF by 856 votes in the newly created riding of Elmwood. He ran again in the 1959 election but finished third. After leaving provincial politics, Turk was elected to the Winnipeg City Council. Though a member of the conservative Civic Election Committee, he again showed himself to be a progressive representative on issues relating to workers, pensioners, and people with disabilities, and he often voted with the CCF group. In 1964, he lost his seat on council to another CEC candidate.
dbp:alongside
dbr:Bill_Kardash dbr:John_Hawryluk dbr:Morris_Gray
gold:hypernym
dbr:Politician
prov:wasDerivedFrom
wikipedia-en:Alexander_Turk?oldid=1085044024&ns=0
dbo:wikiPageLength
5018
dbo:party
dbr:Manitoba_Liberal_Party
dbo:residence
dbr:Winnipeg dbr:Manitoba
dbo:termPeriod
dbr:Alexander_Turk__Tenure__1
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
wikipedia-en:Alexander_Turk