Career
He decided to take on incumbent Bill Dickie who had crossed the floor two years earlier from the Liberals to the Progressive Conservatives. Kingsmith was inducted in 1983 to the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame under the curling category. He was inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame in 1986 under the builder category.
He was president of the Canadian Association from 1983 to 1984.
He died of cancer at a hospital in Calgary in 1988. The Kingsmith Memorial Golf Tournament is named in his honour and held annually to raise money for a scholarship in his name.
