Jean Casselman Wadds
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Jean Cassemlan Wadds OC |
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| Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom | |
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In office 1979–1983 |
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| Prime Minister |
Joe Clark, Pierre Trudeau |
| Preceded by | Paul Joseph James Martin |
| Succeeded by | Donald Jamieson |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for Grenville—Dundas |
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In office 1958–1968 |
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| Preceded by | Arza Clair Casselman |
| Succeeded by | Riding was abolished in 1966 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Jean Rowe September 16, 1920 Newton Robinson, Ontario |
| Died | November 25, 2011 (aged 91) Prescott, Ontario |
| Political party | Progressive Conservative Party |
| Spouse(s) |
Arza Clair Casselman (1946-1958, his death) Robert Wadds (div.) |
| Relations | Earl Rowe (father) |
| Portfolio | Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of National Health and Welfare (1962–1963) |
Jean Casselman Wadds, OC (September 16, 1920 – November 25, 2011) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Grenville—Dundas from 1958 to 1968. She sat as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. She served as Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1983, playing a role in the government of Pierre Trudeau's negotiations with the British government of Margaret Thatcher in Trudeau's successful effort to patriate the Canadian Constitution in 1982.
Wadds was born in 1920 in Newton Robinson, Ontario. She was the daughter of William Earl Rowe; Wadds and Rowe are, to date, the only father and daughter to sit as MPs in the same session of Parliament.
In 1946, she married Arza Clair Casselman, who represented Grenville—Dundas in the House of Commons until his death in 1958, and she was elected to the same seat later that year. She married stockbroker Robert Wadds in the 1960s; their marriage endied in divorce after a decade.
Wadds served as parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Health and Welfare in 1962 and 1963. She was the first woman to serve as a parliamentary secretary in the Canadian government.
She was defeated in the 1968 federal election in the redistributed riding of Grenville—Carleton but remained politically active, serving from 1971 to 1975 as national secretary of the Progressive Conservative party. She served on the Ontario Municipal Board in the late 1970s.
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