James Kelleher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
About James Kelleher
- James Francis "Jim" Kelleher, (October 2, 1930 – June 1, 2013) was a Canadian politician and retired Senator. Born in Sault Ste.
- Marie, Ontario, he received a B.A.
- degree in 1952 from Queen's University and a LL.B.
- degree in 1956 from Osgoode Hall Law School.
- Kelleher was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1984 election as the Progressive Conservative Member of Parliament for Sault Ste.
- Marie, Ontario. He was appointed Minister of International Trade in the first Cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
- In 1986, he became Solicitor General of Canada as the result of a cabinet shuffle, and remained so until his defeat in the 1988 election. On September 23, 1990, Kelleher was appointed to the Senate of Canada on Mulroney's recommendation.
- He retired from the upper house upon his seventy-fifth birthday, October 2, 2005, due to the Senate's mandatory retirement rules. He died of heart problems in 2013.
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