constituency predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place children title party office birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name alma_mater
little bow nathan eldon tanner oran mcpherson arthur j. dixon raymond speaker 24 march 1963 slateford , ayrshire , scotland edmonton , alberta earland mcmaurray david gilmour speaker of the legislative assembly of alberta social credit member of the legislative assembly of alberta 11 april 1892 february 25 , 1937 august 22 , 1935 hildegarde ; his death -rrb- `` hilde '' hallonquist -lrb- 1923 -- 1963 peter dawson.jpg peter dawson -lrb- politician -rrb-
 march 24 , 1963 march 24 , 1963 peter dawson robertson college st. stephen 's college
peter dawson -lrb- politician -rrb-

peter dawson -lrb- april 11 , 1892 -- march 24 , 1963 -rrb- was a canadian minister , politician and member of the legislative assembly of alberta .
dawson was born in 1892 in scotland .
after attending schools and briefly working as a labourer and an apprentice to a butcher in maybole , dawson immigrated to canada at the age of 18 with his brother , james dawson .
shortly after arriving , he took up residence in ontario where he worked in the automobile profession for 7 years until moving west to alberta in 1918 .
following his decision to settle in calgary , he found employment as a butcher and interest in missionary work .
his residence in calgary , however , did n't last long , as 5 years later , he moved to the nearby capital city of edmonton , where he attended prebysterian schooling .
ordained as a minister of the united church in 1927 , he soon was called in 1928 to sedgewick , where he remained for two years , before getting called to champion .
although not intending to have a career in politics , a group of citizens persuaded him to run in the 1935 election , in which he defeated united farmers member of the legislative assembly -lrb- mla -rrb- oran mcpherson by 66 % of the vote .
in 1937 , dawson was appointed speaker of the legislative assembly of alberta .
during his 26 year tenure , from 1937 until his death in 1963 , he witnessed and presided over many events , such as the first instance of crossing the floor in alberta and naming a fellow mla for remarks made at a provincial official .
he also witnessed 2 royal visits to alberta from two different monarchs , king george iv in 1939 , and queen elizabeth ii 20 years later , in which he presided over the installation of a fountain in the legislature 's rotunda .
after dying in office in 1963 , dawson was honoured with a state funeral , attended by many prominent citizens of alberta .
