John Michael Macdonald

John Michael Macdonald

John Michael Macdonald (May 31906 - June 20 1997) was a Canadian politician.

Born in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, he was educated at St. Francis Xavier University and Dalhousie University. He was called to the Nova Scotia bar in 1945.

He ran unsuccessfully as the National Government candidate (the label used by the Conservative Party/Progressive Conservative Party during those elections) for the Canadian House of Commons in the riding of Cape Breton North and Victoria in the 1940 election and 1945 election.

Summoned to the Senate of Canada in 1960 representing the senatorial division of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, a Progressive Conservative, he was twice Opposition Whip in the Senate (1963-1979 and 1980-1984) and was Government Whip in the Senate (1979-1980).

Macdonald died in North Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1997; at the time of his death, he was the last senator to serve in the senate past the age of 75, and one of the last senators appointed for life serving in the Senate (Orville Howard Phillips was the last senator with a lifetime appointment. He resigned in 1999).

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