John Lorne MacDougall (18 November 1898 – 6 June 1956) was a
Liberal party
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member of the
House of Commons of Canada.
MacDougall was born in
Tiverton, Ontario
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, moved to
Saskatchewan
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in childhood, then studied
dentistry at Toronto's Ontario Dental College. He fought in
World War I
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in the same army unit as fellow House of Commons member
John Diefenbaker
John George Diefenbaker ( ; September 18, 1895 – August 16, 1979) was the 13th prime minister of Canada, serving from 1957 to 1963. He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1930 and 1979 to lead the party to an electi ...
. Due to injuries sustained in the war, MacDougall was unable to continue dentistry and moved towards other jobs such as a Liberal Party organizer in
British Columbia
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.
His first federal election campaign was in
1935 at
Vancouver East
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where he was unsuccessful. MacDougall won his second federal campaign in the
1949 election at the
Vancouver—Burrard riding. MacDougall was re-elected there in the
1953 election.
MacDougall collapsed from a
heart attack
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in Parliament's
Centre Block
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building and died on the scene. MacDougall was part of a stressful parliamentary
debate regarding the Trans-Canada Pipeline which resulted in three other Members of Parliament being admitted to hospital. At the time, MacDougall's death was blamed on this stress.
See also
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Augustus Pierce, a New York City alderman who died during a legislative session in 1934
References
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1898 births
1956 deaths
Canadian dentists
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia
Liberal Party of Canada MPs
People from Bruce County
Canadian military personnel of World War I
20th-century dentists
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