Alexander Stirling MacMillan (October 31, 1871-August 7, 1955) was a Nova Scotia politician and businessman. MacMillan made his fortune in lumbering and construction before being made chairman of the Nova Scotia Highways Board in 1920 and serving briefly as minister of highways in 1925. He was a member of Nova Scotia's appointed Upper House, the Legislative Council from 1925 until 1928 when he won a seat in the province's House of Assembly as a Liberal. He again became minister of highways in 1933. In 1940, when PremierAngus L. Macdonald went to Ottawa to serve in the wartime cabinet of William Lyon Mackenzie King, MacMillan became premier in his place. He retired as premier and from politics in 1945 to allow MacDonald to resume his provincial career.
Macmillan was born in Brixton to Maurice Crawford MacMillan (1853 - 1936) and his wife Helen Artie Tarleton Belles (1856 - 1937).
Macmillan supported the creation of the National Incomes Commission as a means to institute controls on income as part of his growth without inflation policy, a further series of subtle indicators and controls were also introduced during his premiership.
Macmillan was a major force in the successful negotiations leading to Britain, the U.S., and the Soviet Union signing the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1962.
Macmillan Publishers Ltd, also known as The Macmillan Group, is a privately-held international publishing company owned by Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
Macmillan was founded in 1843 by Daniel and AlexanderMacmillan, two brothers from the Isle of Arran, Scotland.
After his death, his son AlexanderMacmillan, 2nd Earl of Stockton took up the leadership of the publishers.
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