Lorne MacDougall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Tiverton, Ontario, Ontario, Canada
About Lorne MacDougall
- John Lorne MacDougall (18 November 1898 – 6 June 1956) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. MacDougall was born in Tiverton, Ontario, moved to Saskatchewan in childhood, then studied dentistry at Toronto's Ontario Dental College.
- He fought in World War I in the same army unit as fellow House of Commons member John Diefenbaker.
- 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.His first federal election campaign was in 1935 at Vancouver East 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 in the House of Commons Centre Block 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.
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