Robert Simpson MacLellan (2 July 1925 – 15 January 2011) was a Progressive Conservative party

Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

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 member of the Canadian House of Commons

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. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia

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 and became a lawyer by career.

After an unsuccessful campaign in the 1957 federal election

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 unseat Inverness—Richmond

Inverness—Richmond

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 Liberal incumbent Allan MacEachen

Allan MacEachen

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, MacLellan won the seat in the 1958 general election

Canadian federal election, 1958

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. MacLellan served one term before MacEachen regained the riding in the 1962 election

Canadian federal election, 1962

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MacLellan contracted lung cancer and died in Ottawa at age 85.

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