David Paul Porter (born November 24, 1953) is a former Canadian politician who served in the

Legislative Assembly of Yukon The Yukon Legislative Assembly () is the legislative assembly for Yukon, Canada. Unique among Canada's three territories, the Yukon Legislative Assembly is the only territorial legislature which is organized along political party lines. In contr ...

from 1982 to 1989. He was a member of the

Yukon New Democratic Party The Yukon New Democratic Party (YNDP; ) is a social democratic political party in the Yukon, Canada. It is the territorial section of the federal New Democratic Party. The Yukon NDP first formed the government of the territory under the leaders ...

. Porter was born at

Lower Post Lower Post is an aboriginal community in the Stikine Region of northern British Columbia, Canada, located on Highway 97, the Alaska Highway, approximately southeast of Watson Lake, Yukon. Its historical mile designation is Mile 620. It is locat ...

, British Columbia in 1953. He was first elected in the 1982 election as MLA for Campbell. He shifted to the district of Watson Lake for the 1985 election, in which he was reelected, and served as House Leader and Deputy Premier in the government of

Tony Penikett Antony David John Penikett (born November 14, 1945) is a mediator and negotiator and former politician in Yukon, Canada, who served as the third premier of Yukon from 1985 to 1992. Early life and political activity Born in Sussex, England, o ...

."Penikett recalls years of dominance from the left"
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Whitehorse Star The ''Whitehorse Star'' was a newspaper in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. History The newspaper was founded in 1900 about a year after the Klondike Gold Rush ended. The paper was originally called the ''Northern Star'', by was later changed to th ...

'', May 17, 2010. He did not run for reelection in the 1989 election. He was then appointed as executive director of the Yukon Human Rights Commission. Porter later was CEO of the BC First Nations Energy and Mining Council, and chief negotiator for the Kaska Dena Council."First Nations assert land rights in wake of historic case"
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Yukon News ''Yukon News'' a weekly newspaper in Whitehorse, Yukon. It publishes Wednesday and Friday and is owned by Black Press. History The newspaper was founded in 1960. Until the late 1970s, it was printed weekly until the late 1970s. It currently pr ...

'', July 4, 2014.

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Yukon New Democratic Party MLAs Deputy premiers of Yukon First Nations politicians Living people 1953 births 20th-century members of the Yukon Legislative Assembly {{Yukon-politician-stub