Jean Casselman Wadds

Jean Casselman Wadds
Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
In office
1979–1983
Prime MinisterJoe Clark
Pierre Trudeau
Preceded byPaul Martin Sr.
Succeeded byDonald Jamieson
Member of the Canadian Parliament
for Grenville—Dundas
In office
September 29, 1958 – June 24, 1968
Preceded byArza Clair Casselman
Succeeded byRiding abolished
Personal details
Born
Jean Rowe

(1920-09-16)September 16, 1920
Newton Robinson, Ontario, Canada
DiedNovember 25, 2011(2011-11-25) (aged 91)
Prescott, Ontario, Canada
Political partyProgressive Conservative
Spouses
(m. 1946; died 1958)
Robert Wadds
(divorced)
RelationsWilliam Earl Rowe (father)
PortfolioParliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Health and Welfare (1962–1963)

Jean Casselman Wadds, OC (née Rowe; September 16, 1920 – November 25, 2011) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Grenville—Dundas from 1958 to 1968. She sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. She served as Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1983, playing a role in the government of Pierre Trudeau's negotiations with the British government of Margaret Thatcher in Trudeau's successful effort to patriate the Canadian Constitution in 1982.[1]

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