predecessor successor death_date birth_place children religion profession office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name nominator alma_mater
henry hague davis henry grattan nolan 22 january 1956 keswick ridge , new brunswick willard estey baptist lawyer 37th puisne justice of the supreme court of canada 1 december 1889 october 6 , 1944 james wilfred estey
 january 22 , 1956 james wilfred estey william lyon mackenzie king university of new brunswick and harvard law school
james wilfred estey

james wilfred -lrb- bill -rrb- estey -lrb- december 1 , 1889 -- january 22 , 1956 -rrb- was a canadian lawyer , politician , and jurist .
born in keswick ridge , new brunswick , the son of byron leslie estey and sarah ann kee , he received a bachelor of arts from the university of new brunswick in 1910 .
in 1915 , he received a bachelor of law from harvard university in 1915 .
on 1917 , he was called to the saskatchewan bar , eventually founding the law firm estey , moxon , schmitt & mcdonald .
he practised law as a crown prosecutor until 1929 in saskatoon .
he also taught law and economics at the university of saskatchewan .
in 1934 , he was elected to the legislative assembly of saskatchewan as a liberal .
from 1934 to 1941 , he was the minister of education .
from 1939 to 1944 , he was the attorney general .
he was appointed to the supreme court of canada on october 6 , 1944 and served until his death in 1956 .
he was the second saskatchewan judge of the supreme court -lrb- the first was john henderson lamont -rrb- and succeeded sir lyman poore duff as a western representative on the court .
he is the father of willard estey , also a justice of the supreme court of canada .
he was a baptist and a teetotaller .
