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McEwen retired from politics in 1971.

His successor, Doug Anthony, said that the Country Party's objections to McMahon no longer held, finally freeing the Liberals to replace Gorton with McMahon within two months.

At the time of his resignation, McEwen had served 36 years and 5 months and was the last serving parliamentarian from the Great Depression era and the last parliamentary survivor of the Lyons government.