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Donald Macleod (politician)

Donald Macleod (October 28, 1878 – April 15, 1957) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1930 until 1935 sitting with the governing United Farmers caucus.

Political career

Macleod ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1930 Alberta general election. He defeated sitting United Farmers member Willard Washburn and three other candidates in his party primaries held on May 26, 1930.

In the election he ran in a straight fight against Liberal candidate George Bryan winning 53% of the popular vote to hold the electoral district of Stony Plain for his party.

Macleod ran for a second term in the 1935 Alberta general election. He was unseated by Social Credit candidate William Hayes who captured the district with a landslide. Macleod finished a distant third place in the slate of four candidates.

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Donald Macleod (theologian)

Donald Macleod (born 24 November 1940 in Ness, Lewis) is a Scottish theologian.

Macleod studied at the University of Glasgow and the Free Church College before being ordained as a minister of the Free Church of Scotland in 1964. He served as professor of systematic theology at the Free Church College from 1978 to 2011, and as principal from 1999 to 2010.

In 1996, Macleod was cleared of allegations that he had sexually assaulted four women. The Sheriff court found that "the women had all lied in the witness box to further the ends of Professor Macleod's enemies in the Free Church of Scotland." A number of people who believed Macleod should be put on trial by the General Assembly then formed the Free Church Defence Association and ultimately a new denomination, the Free Church of Scotland (Continuing). However, Johnston McKay notes that although on the surface the split was about Donald Macleod, in reality it was about theology, since Macleod belonged to the more "modernising" wing of the Free Church.