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Browne ran unsuccessfully for the
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Margaret Fleming (née Buckley) in 1951., and to Dr Norah Elphinstone Renouf in 1970, outliving all his wives except for Norah, who died November 24, 2010.
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William Joseph Browne – Parliament of Canada biography
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