John Alexander Robertson
John Alexander (Pete) Robertson (October 6, 1913 - February 19, 1965) was a Canadian Senator.
Robertson was a freight train conductor for the Canadian Pacific Railway at the time of his surprise appointment by John George Diefenbaker to the Canadian Senate in 1962.[1] He was told of his appointment while in a caboose at Ignace, Ontario.[2]
He had previously been an unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1958 federal election but was defeated in the riding of Kenora—Rainy River by 217 votes. He also ran in a 1961 provincial by-election to fill the Kenora seat in the Ontario legislature but was again defeated.[2]
Robertson was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta and worked as a grocery store manager in the 1930s before joining the CPR. During World War II, he served in the Canadian Army as a member of the Canadian Provost Corps as a corporal and then acting sergeant.[2]
He died of a heart attack at the age of 52.[2]
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