John Robert McLeod (January 20, 1872 – May 4, 1931) was a Canadian medical doctor and politician from

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. McLeod was born in

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on January 20, 1872 to William C. McLeod and Mary C. Mackay, both of Scottish heritage. McLeod would complete is M.D. at

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in 1896, and be licensed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the North-West Territories. McLeod married American Grace Victoria Bentley in 1898 and served as a medical health officer in Michigan from 1897 to 1900, and would later purchase a farm in Canada. He was elected to a term in the Alberta Legislature in the

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with a 110-vote plurality over Conservative candidate John Jackson. He would serve as a backbencher with the government and serve on the Committee on Privileges and Elections.

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Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members ListingJournal of the Alberta Legislature March 19, 1906
Alberta Liberal Party MLAs 1872 births 1931 deaths Wayne State University School of Medicine alumni Canadian public health doctors Canadian people of Scottish descent Physicians from Alberta 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta {{Alberta-MLA-stub