Robert Muir (politician)
Robert Muir | |
|---|---|
| Member of Parliament | |
| In office 10 June 1957 – 24 June 1968 | |
| Preceded by | William Murdoch Buchanan – Liberal |
| Succeeded by | Electoral district abolished |
| Constituency | Cape Breton North and Victoria |
| Member of Parliament | |
| In office 25 June 1968 – 26 March 1979 | |
| Preceded by | Electoral district established |
| Succeeded by | Russell MacLellan – Liberal |
| Constituency | Cape Breton—The Sydneys |
| Senator for Nova Scotia | |
| In office 28 March 1979 – 10 November 1994 | |
| Constituency | Cape Breton—The Sydneys |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 November 1919 |
| Died | 31 August 2011 (aged 91) Coxheath, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Party | Progressive Conservative |
| Profession | Miner, businessman, salesman |
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Robert Muir (10 November 1919 – 31 August 2011) was a Canadian Member of Parliament, first in the House of Commons and later in the Senate. Muir sat in both chambers as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. He was born in Scotland and raised on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Before he became a politician, he was also a miner, a union official, a salesman and a businessman during his career. He died at his home in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in 2011.