Stewart E. McLean (1913-1996)

Municipal official, MLA (1958-1959), MLA (1959-1962), MLA (1963-1966), MLA (1966-1969).

Born in Dauphin, Manitoba on 21 November 1913, he was educated at Dauphin Collegiate and Dauphin Normal School. After one year of teaching he attended the University of Saskatchewan, then articled in Tisdale, Saskatchewan. He contracted tuberculosis before entering the RCAF. After World War Two he practised law in Dauphin, served as Mayor of Dauphin from 1956 to 1958. He was President of the Manitoba Association of Urban Municipalities in 1958. He served as a Conservative in the Manitoba Legislature from 1958 to 1969.He was the minister of education responsible for the major school consolidation of the province. Later he became a judge in Saskatchewan.

He died on 13 April 1996.

Sources:

Western Municipal News, September 1958, page 270.

Members of the Legislative Assembly (Deceased), Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.

Profile revised: 26 September 2009

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