Clarence Adam Milligan (12 February 1904 – 25 May 1993) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the

House of Commons of Canada The House of Commons of Canada (french: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the bicameral legislature of Canada. The House of Common ...

. He was a farmer by career. Milligan was born at Tamworth, Ontario. He was first elected at the Prince Edward—Lennox riding in the 1957 general election, after defeating incumbent parliamentarian

George Tustin George James Tustin (19 September 1889 – 19 May 1968) was a Progressive Conservative party, National Government and Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Todmorden, Ontario and became a merchant and thea ...

for the Progressive Conservative nomination.Milligan won on the second ballot, after the withdrawal of a third candidate, Napanee Mayor

Douglas Alkenbrack Almonte Douglas Alkenbrack (June 2, 1912 – March 19, 1998) was a Canadian politician and a lumberman. He was born in Rydal Bank, Ontario, which is now a part of the township of Plummer Additional, Ontario. He was elected in 1962 as a Member of ...

. See "Friend of Tory leader is rejected in Napanee", ''Toronto Star'', 18 April 1957, p. 2. The nomination defeat is also mentioned in Ian Stewart, ''Just One Vote: Jim Walding's nomination to constitutional defeat'', (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press), 2009, p. 7. He was elected to a second term there in the 1958 election then left federal politics at the end of the

24th Canadian Parliament The 24th Canadian Parliament was in session from May 12, 1958, until April 19, 1962. The membership was set by the 1958 federal election on March 31, 1958, and it changed only somewhat due to resignations and by-elections until it was dissolved ...

. He made another attempt to return to the House of Commons in the 1968 election at Frontenac—Lennox and Addington as an independent candidate affiliated with the Progressive Conservatives, but was defeated by Almonte Douglas Alkenbrack. Milligan also served as a president of the

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and was living in Napanee in the early 1990s. He owned what is now the developed part of the Town of Napanee. Refers to the MP as "late Clarence Milligan". He died in Napanee in 1993.

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* 1904 births 1993 deaths 20th-century Canadian farmers Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario People from Lennox and Addington County Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs {{ProgressiveConservative-Ontario-MP-stub