Office: | Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives |
Birth Date: | August 9, 1890 |
Birth Place: | Duluth, Minnesota |
Office2: | Member of the Minnesota Senate |
Termstart1: | January 2, 1923 |
Termend1: | January 3, 1927 |
Termstart2: | January 4, 1927 |
Termend2: | January 5, 1931 |
Death Place: | Hennepin County, Minnesota |
Edwin Lockwood MacLean (August 9, 1890–October 18,1968[1]) was an American politician and lawyer who was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 1923 until early 1927 and a member of the Minnesota Senate from 1927 until early 1931.[2]
MacLean was born in Duluth, Minnesota. He graduated from Central High School in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1908. He then graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1912,[3] and attended graduate school at Cambridge University for two years. He studied law at Yale Law School for two years and received a law degree in 1916 from the University of Washington.
MacLean served in the United States Infantry in World War I for five years, becoming a captain. He was a part of the Disabled American Veterans.
During his time as a Minnesota legislator, MacLean sponsored many bills, including a forced-sterilization bill which was passed into law in 1925.[4] He also co-sponsored bills with Sue Metzger Dickey Hough about gun control and car insurance.[5]