- Angus MacLean
Infobox_President
name = John Angus MacLean
order = 27thPremier of Prince Edward Island
term_start = 1979
term_end = 17 November 1981
predecessor =Bennett Campbell
successor = James Lee
birth_date = 15 May 1914
death_date = death date and age|2000|2|15|1914|5|15|
party = Progressive Conservative|John Angus MacLean, PC , OC , DFC , B.Sc , LL.D (15 May 1914 - 15 February 2000) was a politician and farmer in
Prince Edward Island ,Canada .He was an alumnus of both
Mount Allison University and theUniversity of British Columbia with degrees in science. MacLean left farming to enlist in theRoyal Canadian Air Force duringWorld War II , serving from 1939-1947 and achieving the rank of Wing Commander.MacLean's bomber was shot down, and he evaded capture in Nazi-occupied
Europe with the help of the underground resistance.MacLean returned to Prince Edward Island after the war, and ran for a seat in the
Canadian House of Commons as aProgressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate, but was defeated in the 1945 and 1949 federal elections.He was first elected to Parliament in a 1951 by-election and held his seat continuously until he left federal politics in 1976. MacLean served in the cabinet of Prime Minister
John Diefenbaker as Minister of Fisheries from 1957 until the government's defeat in the 1963 election.In 1976, MacLean was persuaded to leave federal politics and take the leadership of the
Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party which had languished in opposition for a decade. MacLean led the party to victory in 1979, and formed a government that emphasized rural community life, banned new shopping malls and instituted a Royal Commission to examine land use and sprawl. His government cancelled the province's participation in thePoint Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station inNew Brunswick .At the age of 67, MacLean retired as premier on 17 November 1981 and did not run in the 1982 provincial election. He returned to the family farm that he redeveloped for low-intensity
blueberry farming. A respected steward of the land and of rural communities, MacLean was a committedPresbyterian of Scottish descent. In 1991, he was made an Officer of theOrder of Canada .He died in Charlottetown on 15 February 2000.
External links
* [http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=2962 Order of Canada Citation]
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=1318&s=M Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament]
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