Senate
In 1955, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent appointed Hartland Molson to the Canadian Senate. Hartland Molson retired from the Senate in 1993 at the age of 86—one of the last Senators to serve past the mandatory retirement age of 75 as he was appointed prior to the institution of the limit in 1965 and thus exempt. John Michael MacDonald was the last Senator to serve past the age of 75 (He died in office in 1997).
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