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- Wendell W. Meldrum was born in Bridgewater, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. In 1944 he married Dorothy Downey of Hopewell Cape, Albert County, New Brunswick, while he was serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force. The Meldrums raised 2 sons. The family initially resided in Montréal where Meldrum was attached to Ferry Command of the Royal Air Force and flew overseas missions.
In September 1945 Meldrum enrolled in Dalhousie Law School, Halifax. After graduation he relocated to New Brunswick, where he practised law in Sackville, taking over Malcolm MacIntrye's practice. He was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in August 1948 and to the New Brunswick bar in September 1948.
As solicitor for the town of Sackville, in the early 1960s Meldrum sat on the Royal Commission on Finance and Municipal Taxation or the Byrne Commission. Following the sudden death of Sackville MLA Donald Harper in 1965, Meldrum was invited to sit in Louis J. Robichaud's cabinet as attorney-general. He successfully contested Harper's seat in a September 1965 by-election.
The following year, Meldrum became minister of education, a post he held until the election of 1970, which saw Louis Robichaud's government defeated. Meldrum successfully contested his seat in 1970, and sat as an opposition member in the house. He did not run in the election of 1974, but returned to his law practice in Sackville. He was appointed to the bench three years later, serving 10 years as a justice of the supreme court.
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