John Robert McLeod | |
Birth Date: | 20 January 1872 |
Birth Place: | Zorra, Ontario |
Office: | Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
Constituency: | Ponoka |
Term Start: | 1905 |
Term End: | 1909 |
Successor: | William A. Campbell |
Party: | Liberal |
Spouse: | Grace Victoria Bentley |
Alma Mater: | Detroit College of Medicine |
Occupation: | physician, politician |
John Robert McLeod (January 20, 1872 – May 4, 1931)[1] was a Canadian medical doctor and politician from Alberta.
McLeod was born in Zorra, Ontario on January 20, 1872 to William C. McLeod and Mary C. Mackay, both of Scottish heritage.[2] McLeod would complete is M.D. at Detroit College of Medicine in 1896, and be licensed by the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the North-West Territories.[2] McLeod married American Grace Victoria Bentley in 1898 and served as a medical health officer in Michigan from 1897 to 1900, and would later purchase a farm in Canada.[2]
He was elected to a term in the Alberta Legislature in the 1905 Alberta general election with a 110-vote plurality over Conservative candidate John Jackson.[3] He would serve as a backbencher with the government and serve on the Committee on Privileges and Elections.