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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{distinguish|Angus MacLean (British Columbia politician)}}
{{for|people with a similar name|Angus McLean (disambiguation)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name = Angus MacLean
| honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|OC|DFC}}
| image = Angus MacLean 1980 (cropped).jpg
| caption = MacLean, {{circa|1980}}
| order = 25th [[Premier of Prince Edward Island]]
| term_start = May 3, 1979
| term_end = November 17, 1981
| monarch = [[Elizabeth II]]
| lieutenant_governor = [[Gordon Lockhart Bennett|Gordon L. Bennett]]<br />[[Joseph Aubin Doiron]]
| predecessor = [[Bennett Campbell|W. Bennett Campbell]]
| successor = [[James Lee (Canadian politician)|James Lee]]
| riding4 = [[Queen's (Prince Edward Island federal electoral district)|Queen's]]
| parliament4 = Canadian
| term_start4 = June 25, 1951
| term_end4 = June 25, 1968
| predecessor4 = [[James Lester Douglas]]
| successor4 = ''District abolished''
| riding3 = [[Malpeque (electoral district)|Malpeque]]
| parliament3 = Canadian
| term_start3 = June 25, 1968
| term_end3 = October 20, 1976
| predecessor3 = ''District created''
| successor3 = [[Donald Wood|Don Wood]]
| office2    = Leader of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island]]
| term_start2 = September 25, 1976
| term_end2   = November 7, 1981
| predecessor2 = [[Lloyd MacPhail]] <small>(interim)</small>
| successor2  = James Lee
| office1  = [[Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island|MLA]] (Assemblyman) for [[4th Queens]]
| predecessor1 = Vernon MacIntyre
| successor1 = [[Wilbur MacDonald]]
| term_start1 = November 8, 1976
| term_end1  = September 27, 1982
| birth_name = John Angus MacLean
| birth_date = {{birth date|1914|5|15}}
| birth_place = [[Lot 60, Prince Edward Island|Lewes]], Prince Edward Island
| death_date = {{death date and age|2000|2|15|1914|5|15}}
| death_place = [[Charlottetown]], Prince Edward Island
| spouse = {{marriage|Gwendolyn Esther Burwash|1952}}
| party = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
| otherparty = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island]]
| relation =
| children = 4
| alma_mater = [[Mount Allison University]]<br />[[University of British Columbia]]
| cabinet = '''Federal''':<br />[[Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)|Ministers of Fisheries]] (1957–1963) <br />[[Postmaster General of Canada|Postmaster General]] (acting) (1962–1963)
'''Provincial''':<br />Minister Responsible for Cultural Affairs (1979–1980)
}}

'''John Angus MacLean'''  {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC|OC|DFC}} (May 15, 1914 &ndash; February 15, 2000) was a politician and farmer in [[Prince Edward Island]], Canada.

He was an alumnus of both [[Mount Allison University]] and the [[University of British Columbia]] with degrees in science. MacLean left farming to enlist in the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] during [[World War II]], serving from 1939 to 1947 and achieving the rank of [[Wing Commander (rank)|Wing Commander]].

MacLean's bomber was shot down, and he evaded capture in [[Nazism|Nazi]]-occupied Europe with the help of the [[Comet line|Belgian escape-line]] Comète with [[Andrée De Jongh]].

MacLean returned to Prince Edward Island after the war, and ran for a [[Legislative seat|seat]] in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada]] candidate, but was defeated in the [[1945 Canadian federal election|1945]] and [[1949 Canadian federal election|1949 federal elections]].

He was first elected to [[Parliament of Canada|Parliament]] in a 1951 by-election and held his [[Legislative seat|seat]] continuously until he left federal politics in 1976. MacLean served in the [[Cabinet of Canada|cabinet]] of [[Prime Minister of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[John Diefenbaker]] as [[Minister of Fisheries and Oceans (Canada)|Minister of Fisheries]] from 1957 until the government's defeat in the [[1963 Canadian federal election|1963 election]].

In 1976, MacLean was persuaded to leave federal politics and take the leadership of the [[Progressive Conservative Party of Prince Edward Island]] which had languished in [[Opposition (parliamentary)|opposition]] for a decade.<ref>{{cite news|title=MacLean quits after 25 years|work=The Globe and Mail|date=25 October 1976}}</ref> On 8 November 1976, MacLean was elected to the provincial legislature in a by-election.<ref>{{cite news|title=Tories capture 3 of 4 seats in PEI voting|work=The Globe and Mail|date=9 November 1976}}</ref> MacLean led the party to victory in 1979,<ref>{{cite news|title=PEI Tory win costs Liberals last province|work=The Globe and Mail|date=24 April 1979}}</ref> 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 the [[Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station]] in [[New Brunswick]].

On 17 August 1981, MacLean announced his intention to resign as premier upon electing a new party leader.<ref>{{cite news|title=PEI leader since '79, MacLean announces plans to step down|work=The Globe and Mail|date=18 August 1981}}</ref> MacLean retired as premier on 17 November 1981,<ref>{{cite news|title=James Lee sworn in as Premier of PEI|work=The Globe and Mail|date=18 November 1981}}</ref> when James Lee was sworn-in as his successor 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 committed [[Presbyterian]] of [[Scottish people|Scottish]] descent.  In 1991, he was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]].

He died in Charlottetown on February 15, 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/former-premier-angus-maclean-dies-1.228451|title=Former premier Angus MacLean dies|work=CBC News|date=15 February 2000|access-date=2014-09-23}}</ref>

== Electoral record ==
{{1974 Canadian federal election/Malpeque}}
{{1972 Canadian federal election/Malpeque}}
{{1968 Canadian federal election/Malpeque}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{OCC|2962}}
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=5845}}

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{{Prince Edward Island Conservative and Progressive Conservative leaders}}
{{CA-Ministers of Fisheries}}
{{CA-Postmasters General}}

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