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When did John George Diefenbaker first get elected to Parliament?

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Elected to Parliament (1940) he succeeded George Drew as leader of the Progressive Conservative party (1956) and (1957) succeeded Liberal Louis St. Laurent as prime minister although his party failed to win a clear-cut majority.

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