Wallace Warren Cross

Wallace Warren Cross was a medical doctor and long-serving politician from Alberta, Canada.
Cross was elected in the 1935 [Alberta general election] for the Alberta Social Credit Party for the Hand Hills district. He served six terms in office, retiring from provincial politics in 1959.
Cross became minister of health under Premier William Aberhart and strongly enhanced the powers of the Alberta Eugenics Board by removing the requirement to obtain consent from individuals to be sterilized.
During his time as minister, Cross also opened a series of cancer clinics across Alberta, and actively focused the Department of Health's resources on cancer treatment. He died in Edmonton in 1973.
The Cross Cancer Institute, which opened in 1968, is named in his honour.