Russell MacEwan

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

| name=Howard Russell MacEwan

| image=Russell MacEwan.png

| imagesize=

| caption=Official 1968 portrait

| birth_date={{birth date|df=yes|1925|5|8}}

| birth_place=Westville, Nova Scotia

| death_date={{death date and age|df=yes|2008|6|29|1925|5|8}}

| death_place=New Glasgow, Nova Scotia

| spouse=Joan MacDonald (predeceased)
Betty MacNeil

| residence=

| parliament = Canadian

| riding =Central Nova

| term_start=June 25, 1968

| term_end=January 14, 1971

| predecessor=

| successor=

| parliament2 = Canadian

| riding2 = Pictou

| term_start2=June 10, 1957

| term_end2=June 24, 1968

| predecessor2=

| successor2=

| profession=Barrister and solicitor

| party=Progressive Conservative

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| website=

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Howard Russell MacEwan (8 May 1925 – 29 June 2008) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Westville, Nova Scotia and became a barrister and solicitor by career.

He was first elected at the Pictou riding in the 1957 general election, then re-elected there in the 1958, 1962, 1963 and 1965. With riding boundary changes, MacEwan won re-election at Central Nova riding in the 1968 federal election. He left federal politics in January 1971, during his term in the 28th Canadian Parliament, to become a Nova Scotia provincial judge at Amherst. From 1977 to 1991, he was based in New Glasgow.

Russell MacEwan died at Aberdeen Hospital in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia on 29 June 2008.{{cite news | url=http://www.ngnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=148748&sc=55 | publisher=The News (Pictou County, Nova Scotia) | date=1 July 2008 | title=Obituaries: Judge H. Russell MacEwan }}{{dead link|date=April 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/former-mp-and-judge-macewan-dies-1.771981|title=Former MP and judge MacEwan dies|work=CBC News|date=2 July 2008}}