biography
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Campbell, Kim (Avril Phaedra Douglas)
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1947– )
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| biography:
| Canadian stateswoman, and Canada's first woman prime minister (1993), born in British Columbia, SW Canada. Her first public office was as school trustee with the Vancouver School Board (1980). She later ran unsuccessfully as a Social Credit candidate in the British Columbia provincial election, then was elected for the province in 1988 as a federal conservative. She served as minister of justice and defence in Brian Mulroney's cabinet, before becoming leader of the party and prime minister in spring 1993, but disastrously lost the general election some months later. She returned to university lecturing, holding a fellowship at Harvard. |
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