Mary Clancy Politician

Mary Catherine Clancy (born 13 January 1948 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1997. By career, she was a lawyer.Clancy won the Halifax electoral district for the Liberal party in the 1988 and 1993 federal elections. After serving in the 34th and 35th Canadian Parliaments, Clancy was defeated in the 1997 federal election by New Democratic Party leader Alexa McDonough.Subsequently in 1997, she was appointed Canadian Consul General to Boston.From 2002 to 2003, Clancy was president of Burlington College in Burlington, Vermont. Her resignation after less than a year was attributed to her not having raised sufficient money for the college.The 1997 federal election competition between Clancy and McDonough is the subject of the 1999 National Film Board documentary Why Women Run.