{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{distinguish|Walter McLean (United States Navy officer)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[The Honourable]] | honorific_suffix = [[King's Privy Council for Canada|PC]] | name = Walter McLean | image = | term_start = 1979 | term_end = 1993 | predecessor = [[Max Saltsman]] | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1936|4|26}} | birth_place = [[Leamington, Ontario]] | successor = [[Andrew Telegdi]] | death_date = | death_place = | profession = Church minister | party = [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] | riding = [[Waterloo (federal electoral district)|Waterloo]] | footnotes = | term_start2 = | term_end2 = | predecessor2 = | successor2 = | spouse = Barbara }} '''Walter Franklin McLean''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (born April 26, 1936) is a former [[Canadians|Canadian]] politician.
Born in [[Leamington, Ontario]], he grew up in [[Victoria BC|Victoria]] [[British Columbia]], the son of James Walter Lewis McLean (1905–1998), a [[Presbyterian Church in Canada|Presbyterian]] minister, and Frances D. Blair McLean. He studied at the [[University of British Columbia]] and [[Toronto]]'s [[Knox College, University of Toronto|Knox College]]. Walter and his wife Barbara were designated as Presbyterian [[missionary|missionaries]]; Walter was the first [[CUSO]] coordinator in [[Nigeria]] in 1962.
Following the [[Nigerian Civil War|civil war in Nigeria]], the McLeans returned to Canada, and settled in [[Winnipeg]], [[Manitoba]], where Walter was involved in that province's 1970 Centennial Celebrations.
In 1971, the family moved to [[Waterloo, Ontario|Waterloo]], [[Ontario]], and Walter became the Minister of [[Knox Presbyterian Church (Waterloo)|Knox Church]], and involved in local affairs. He was elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]] candidate in the [[1979 Canadian federal election|1979 federal election]] in the riding of [[Waterloo (federal electoral district)|Waterloo]]. He was re-elected in the [[1980 Canadian federal election|1980]], [[1984 Canadian federal election|1984]] and [[1988 Canadian federal election|1988 elections]]. He retired from politics in [[1993 Canadian federal election|1993]].
From 1984 to 1985, he was [[Secretary of State for Canada]], and from 1985 to 1986, he was Minister of State (Immigration).
He has represented Canada as the Parliamentary Delegate to the [[United Nations General Assembly]], and as Special Representative for African and Commonwealth Affairs.
Within the Presbytrerian Church in Canada, he is now a "Minister in Association" with Knox Waterloo. He was co-ordinator of the "Celebrate 125" festivities in 1999–2000. He was rewarded with a [[Doctor of Divinity]] degree from Knox College in 2002. His wife Barbara has also served in the Church as Presbytery Clerk in the Waterloo-Wellington [[Presbytery (church polity)|Presbytery]], and in the national Church as Deputy Clerk of the Presbyterian Church in Canada's General Assembly from 1992 to 2003.
==Archives== There is a Walter McLean [[fonds]] at [[Library and Archives Canada]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Walter McLean fonds, Library and Archives Canada|url=http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=157859&lang=eng|access-date=September 16, 2020}}</ref>
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