Famous People with Name Macbride

Roger Lea MacBride            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Roger Lea MacBride: was an American lawyer, political figure, and television producer. He was the presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party in the 1976 election. He became the first presidential elector to cast a vote for a woman when, in the presidential election of 197

Morrison Mann MacBride            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Morrison Mann MacBride: was an Ontario merchant and political figure. He represented Brant South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1919 to 1926 as a Labour member and then Brantford from 1934 to 1938 as an Independent and then Independent Liberal member. MacBride remained a Labour MLA but sat in the Opposition benches and ran for re-election as a Conservative-Labour candidate in 1923. After his second term in the legislature ended in 1926 he did not run for re-election and was appointed Supervisor of Highways by the Conservative provincial government of Howard Ferguson before returning to the legislature in the 1934 provincial election. He learned the printing trade and came to Brantford to play with a lacrosse team there, also setting up a printing company. MacBride served as mayor of Brantford from 1918 to 1920, in 1925, from 1933 to 1934 and from 1936 to 1937. He served as Minister of Labour in the provincial cabinet from 1937 to 1938. He died while still in office in Brantford in 1938.