A. A. MacLeod | |
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Member of the Ontario Provincial Parliament for Bellwoods | |
In office 1943–1951 | |
Preceded by | Arthur Roebuck |
Succeeded by | John Yaremko |
Personal details | |
Born | Alexander Albert MacLeod April 2, 1902 Black Rock, Victoria County, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Died | March 13, 1970 Toronto, Ontario, Canada | (aged 67)
Political party | Labor-Progressive (1943–56) |
Spouse(s) | Annie Jean Hicks (married 1923; she died three years later); and Virginia MacLean (married 1930) |
Children | 4 |
Education | King's Coll., Windsor, Nova Scotia; Halifax Business School[1] |
Occupation | YMCA secretary, 1920s; business manager and executive editor, The World Tomorrow, 1929-34; chairman, Canadian League Against War and Fascism (League for Peace and Democracy), 1934-39; council member, International Peace Campaign, 1936-37; MPP, 1943-51 |
Alexander Albert MacLeod (April 2, 1902 – March 13, 1970) was a political organizer and a prominent member of the Communist Party of Canada and, later, of its legal group, the Labor-Progressive Party. He was an elected Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario (1943–51).