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Maureen McTeer

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

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 attempting to maintain her own career.

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

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

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.

Books by Maureen McTeer:

See also: Spouses of the Prime Ministers of Canada

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