Mark Rudolph MacGuigan, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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 (February 17, 1931 – January 12, 1998) was a Canadian

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 academic and politician

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Born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, the son of Mark Rudolph MacGuigan

Mark MacGuigan, Sr.

Mark Rudolph MacGuigan was an educator, lawyer, judge and political figure on Prince Edward Island. He represented 3rd Queens in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1935 to 1944 as a Liberal....

 and Agnes Violet Trainor, he was educated at Saint Dunstan's University

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, the University of Toronto

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, Osgoode Hall Law School

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 and Columbia University

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. He was a professor at Osgoode and the University of Toronto and was dean of law at the University of Windsor

University of Windsor

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MacGuigan was elected as a Liberal Party

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 candidate to the Canadian House of Commons

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 in the 1968 general election

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. He was re-elected in 1972

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, 1974

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, 1979

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, and 1980

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In 1976, he took a turn at provincial politics and ran for the leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party

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. He lost to Stuart Smith

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 at the leadership convention.

In 1980, he was appointed Secretary of State for External Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister

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 Pierre Trudeau

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. He became Minister of Justice

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 in 1982.

When Trudeau announced his retirement as Liberal leader and prime minister, MacGuigan ran to succeed him at the 1984 Liberal leadership convention. He placed fifth. He retired from politics following the convention, and became a judge

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 on the federal Court of Appeal.

He died in Oklahoma City

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 of liver cancer

Hepatocellular carcinoma

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in 1998.