Donald Alexander McNiven (23 June 1887 – 31 July 1961) was a Canadian politician on the provincial and federal level. He was born in

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and became a barrister and judge. McNiven attended public and secondary schools at

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. He graduated from the

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in 1909 with a

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degree. He was elected as a provincial Liberal member to the

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at the

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riding in a by-election on 19 September 1922. He was a member of that legislature until his defeat in the 1929 provincial election. McNiven was elected to the

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for the

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at the

riding in the 1935 general election and re-elected there in

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. McNiven resigned from the House of Commons on 19 October 1944 before the end of the

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to become a judge on the Saskatchewan Court of King's Bench. In that same year, he also began to serve on various wartime-related boards. In 1949, he was made a judge of the

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where he presided until shortly before his death in July 1961.

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* 1887 births 1961 deaths Judges in Saskatchewan Liberal Party of Canada MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Liberal Party MLAs University of Manitoba alumni People from Virden, Manitoba 20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Liberal-Saskatchewan-MLA-stub