death_place death_date predecessor birth_place successor party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name occupation
st. petersburg , florida 1 march 1972 '' new riding '' george e. hagen rockingham , nova scotia gordon h. fitzgerald charles h. reardon nova scotia liberal party mla for halifax northwest mla for halifax west 7 october 1896 1956 1941 ronald manning fielding
 1960 1956 ronald manning fielding lawyer
ronald manning fielding

ronald manning fielding -lrb- october 7 , 1896 -- march 1 , 1972 -rrb- was a canadian politician .
he represented the electoral districts of halifax west and halifax northwest in the nova scotia house of assembly from 1941 to 1960 .
he was a member of the nova scotia liberal party .
fielding was born in 1896 at rockingham , nova scotia .
he was educated at dalhousie university , and was a lawyer by career .
he was a municipal solicitor from 1931 -- 1948 , and a county prosecutor from 1933 -- 1946 .
he married marion leck in 1945 .
fielding entered provincial politics in the 1941 election , winning the halifax west riding .
he was re-elected in the 1945 and 1949 elections .
in december 1949 , fielding was appointed to the executive council of nova scotia as minister of municipal affairs .
fielding was re-elected in the 1953 election .
in january 1954 , fielding was given an additional role in cabinet as provincial treasurer .
in june 1956 , he was named minister of education .
in the 1956 election , fielding was re-elected in the newly established halifax northwest riding .
fielding was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1960 , losing his seat by 27 votes to progressive conservative gordon h. fitzgerald .
in 1965 , fielding was appointed to the nova scotia supreme court , serving until his retirement in 1968 .
he died at st. petersburg , florida on march 1 , 1972 .
