Monarch Victoria
Edward VII Name Abner McClelan Preceded by John James Fraser Role Canadian legislator | Nominated by John A. Macdonald Party Liberal Party of Canada Appointed by Royal Proclamation | |
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Governor General The Earl of Aberdeen
The Earl of Minto Premier James Mitchell
Henry Emmerson
Lemuel J. Tweedie Died January 30, 1917, Moncton, Canada | ||
Succeeded by Jabez Bunting Snowball | ||
Abner Reid McClelan (January 4, 1831 – January 30, 1917) was a Canadian senator and the tenth Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.
Born in Riverside-Albert, New Brunswick, the son of Peter McClelan and Lucy (Robinson) McLelan, he was educated at Mount Allison Wesleyan Academy in Sackville, (now Mount Allison University). He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick in 1854 and served until confederation in 1867 when he was called to the Senate of Canada for the senatorial division of New Brunswick. A Liberal, he resigned in 1896 when he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. He served until 1902. McClelan died in Moncton, New Brunswick in 1917.
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