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{{Short description|Canadian politician}}
{{One source|date=January 2022}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=June 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name=Robert Jardine McCleave
| image=Robert McCleave.png
| imagesize=
| caption=Official 1974 portrait
| birth_date= 19 December 1922
| birth_place=[[Moncton]], [[New Brunswick]]
| death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|2004|9|3|1922|12|19}}
| death_place=[[Moncton]], [[New Brunswick]]<ref name=Sen2004>{{cite web | url=https://sencanada.ca/en/Content/Sen/chamber/381/debates/019db_2004-11-25-e | publisher=[[Senate of Canada]] | date=25 November 2004 | accessdate=2 August 2008 | title=Senators' Statements }}</ref>
| residence=
| riding=[[Halifax (federal electoral district)|Halifax]]
| term_start=June 1957
| term_end=April 1963
| term_start2=November 1965
| term_end2=June 1968
| riding3=[[Halifax—East Hants]]
| term_start3=June 1968
| term_end3=December 1977
| predecessor=
| successor=
| profession= Journalist, judge, lawyer
| party=[[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
| footnotes=
| website=
|}}

'''Robert Jardine McCleave''' (19 December 1922 – 3 September 2004) was a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative party]]
member of the [[House of Commons of Canada]]. He was born in [[Moncton]], [[New Brunswick]], and became a journalist, judge and lawyer by career. He was also an editor of the ''[[Halifax Chronicle-Herald]]'' and became a news director at radio station [[CJCH-FM|CJCH]]. McCleave attended [[Dalhousie University]], where he graduated in law studies.<ref name=Sen2004 />

He was first elected at the [[Halifax (federal electoral district)|Halifax]] riding in the [[1957 Canadian federal election|1957 general election]]. Except for a defeat at that riding in the [[1963 Canadian federal election|1963 federal election]], he was re-elected to Parliament until the [[1974 Canadian federal election|1974 federal election]].{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

The Halifax riding was shared by two Members of Parliament until 1967. McCleave was joined by fellow Progressive Conservative member [[Edmund L. Morris]] from 1957 to 1963, then by [[Michael Forrestall]], another Progressive Conservative, from 1965 to 1968. The Halifax riding was redefined in 1967 so that it elected only a single Member of Parliament, therefore McCleave campaigned in the [[Halifax—East Hants]] riding as of the [[1968 Canadian federal election|1968 federal election]].{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

He left federal office after 8 December 1977, prior to the end of his term in the [[30th Canadian Parliament]] and became a [[provincial court]] judge for the province of Nova Scotia, where he served for ten years.<ref name=Sen2004 />

== Electoral record ==
{{1962 Canadian federal election/Halifax}}
{{1963 Canadian federal election/Halifax}}
{{1968 Canadian federal election/Halifax—East Hants}}
{{1972 Canadian federal election/Halifax—East Hants}}
{{1974 Canadian federal election/Halifax—East Hants}}

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=15780}}

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[[Category:20th-century Canadian judges]]
[[Category:Judges in Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:Dalhousie University alumni]]
[[Category:Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:Politicians from Moncton]]
[[Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs]]
[[Category:20th-century Canadian journalists]]
[[Category:20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada]]

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