Alexander Kenneth Maclean
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Alexander Kenneth Maclean (October 18, 1869 – July 31, 1942) was a Canadian politician.
A Nova Scotia Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons representing Lunenburg from 1900 to 1908 and Halifax from 1908 until 1917 when, as a result of the Conscription Crisis of 1917 he crossed the floor on October 10, 1917 to support the Unionist government of Sir Robert Laird Borden and sit as a minister without portfolio in the Cabinet. He left the government in 1920 and was re-elected as a Liberal in the 1921 general election. He resigned his seat in 1923 and returned to private life.
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