Alexander Stirling MacMillan explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Alexander Stirling MacMillan
Birth Date:31 October 1870
Birth Place:Upper South River, Nova Scotia
Death Place:Halifax, Nova Scotia
Office:13th Premier of Nova Scotia
Term Start:July 10, 1940
Term End:September 8, 1945
Lieutenant Governor:Frederick F. Mathers
Henry Ernest Kendall
Predecessor:Angus L. Macdonald
Successor:Angus L. Macdonald
Office1:Member of Legislative Council
Term Start1:June 25, 1925
Term End1:September 5, 1928
Office2:MLA for Digby County
Term Start2:October 1, 1928
Term End2:August 22, 1933
Predecessor2:William Hudson Farnham
John Louis Philip Robicheau
Successor2:Joseph Willie Comeau
Alongside2:Joseph Willie Comeau
Office3:MLA for Hants
Term Start3:August 22, 1933
Term End3:October 23, 1945
Predecessor3:Albert E. Parsons
Edgar Nelson Rhodes
Successor3:Robert A. MacLellan
Occupation:businessman
Party:Liberal

Alexander S. MacMillan (October 31, 1870 – August 7, 1955) was a Nova Scotia politician and businessman, the 13th premier of Nova Scotia, from 1940 to 1945.

MacMillan was born in Upper South River in Antigonish County. He made his fortune in lumbering and construction before being made chairman of the Nova Scotia Highways Board in 1920 and serving briefly as minister of highways in 1925. He was a member of Nova Scotia's appointed upper house, the Legislative Council from 1925 until 1928 when he won a seat in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly as a Liberal. He again became minister of highways in 1933. In 1940, when Premier Angus L. Macdonald went to Ottawa to serve in the wartime cabinet of William Lyon Mackenzie King, MacMillan became premier in his place. He retired as premier and from politics in 1945 to allow Macdonald to resume his provincial career. MacMillan died in Halifax at the age of 83.

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