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MCLEAN, ALFRED EDGAR farmer and trader; b. 8 May 1868 in Southwest Lot 16, son of Roderick William McLean and Rachel McLean; m. 26 June 1895 Henrietta S. Stavert; Presbyterian; d. 28 October 1939 in Summerside. McLean, a Liberal, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1915 for 3rd Prince. He was re-elected in the general election of 1919. He was defeated in the general election of 1912. In 1921 he resigned from provincial politics to contest the federal seat of Prince. McLean was elected to the House of Commons in 1921, and was re-elected in 1925, 1926, 1930, and 1935. He was a Member of the House of Commons at the time of his death. McLean served for eight years on the Town Council in Summerside. McLean was educated in the local schools, and later attended Summerside High School and Truro Agricultural College. He worked as a farmer and a trader, and was a director of A. E. McLean Silver Black Fox Company and president of Dominion Silver Fox Furs Limited. Fie was a director of the first National Fox Exchange and was a member of the Masonic Order. Alfred McLean died 28 October 1939. Henriette McLean, the daughter of Catherine McMurdo and William Stavert, was born 6 October 1873 and died 21 April 1906., CDP p. 424; CPG 1912, 1915, 1916, 1919; Guardian July 1915; PARO: MNI-Census 1891; Census 1901; Kensington People’s Cemetery Records.