John MacLellan Buchanan

This is an article about the Canadian Premier. See John_Buchanan_(American_politician) for an article about the 2004 American presidential candidate.

John Maclellan Buchanan (born April 22, 1931) was first elected to the Nova Scotia legislature in 1967. He became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Nova Scotia in 1971 and became Premier of Nova Scotia in 1978. In 1990 he left provincial politics and was appointed to the Canadian Senate by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as one of several special appointments Mulroney made under a provision in the Canadian constitution that allowed the creation of extra Senators above the ordinary limit. Murloney did this in order to pass the Goods and Services Tax through the Canadian Upper House and Buchanan obliged by voting for the unpopular measure.

Buchanan sat as a Progressive Conservative until 2004 when the party merged with the Canadian Alliance. He now sits as a Senator for the new Conservative Party of Canada.