Maureen McTeer

Maureen Anne McTeer (born February 27, 1952 in Ottawa) is an author and a lawyer, and the wife of Joe Clark, the 16th Prime Minister of Canada.

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February 27 - 1952 - Ottawa - Author - Lawyer - Joe Clark - Prime Minister of Canada

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McTeer was born and raised in Ottawa, and worked as a staffer in Clark's office before marrying him in 1974. When Clark became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1976, McTeer became controversial -- feminism still being a relatively new social phenomenon at that time -- for keeping her own surname and maintaining her own career.

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1974 - Progressive Conservative Party of Canada - 1976 - Feminism

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In the 1988 federal election, McTeer ran as a Progressive Conservative candidate in Ottawa. However, she was not elected.

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McTeer is a specialist in medical law, and chaired a government commission on new reproductive technologies in the early 1990s.

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McTeer and Clark have one daughter, Catherine, who became a public figure in her own right when Clark returned to the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives in 1998.

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Catherine - 1998

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See also: Spouses of the Prime Ministers of Canada.

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