He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1989 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus and as an Alderman on Calgary City Council from 1967 to 1974.
[1] Musgreave attended Carleton University following the War, earning a Bachelor in Commerce and began working at Imperial Oil in Calgary.
[2] He made another attempt to win a seat in the 1975 Alberta general election, this time in the electoral district of Calgary-McKnight.
This time, Musgreave was successful as he defeated future MLA Ray Martin and two other candidates with a landslide victory.
He defeated four other candidates and won the district with 10,000 votes over his second place competitor Eileen Nesbitt of the New Democrats.