Oliver, Donald H.

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Oliver
  • Wiki Biography Notes:
    • Donald H. Oliver CM ONS KC (November 16, 1938 – September 17, 2025) was a Canadian lawyer, developer and politician. Appointed by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Oliver served in the Senate of Canada from 1990 until 2013. He was the first black male to sit in the Senate and the second black Canadian appointed to the chamber.
    • A lawyer and real estate developer, Oliver was a member of Nova Scotia’s black minority. He was descended in part from African-American slave refugees who were resettled by the British in Canada from the United States after the War of 1812. But his maternal grandfather, William A. White, migrated independently in 1900 from Baltimore, Maryland. Oliver was the nephew of Canadian opera singer Portia White, politician Bill White and labour union activist Jack White, and the cousin of political strategist Sheila White.
    • A long-time activist in the Progressive Conservative Party, Oliver served as the party’s director of legal affairs through six federal elections, from 1972 to 1988. He also served as a federal vice-president of the party and as a director of its fundraising wing, the PC Canada Fund.
    • Oliver also served for years as Constitution Chairman and member of the Finance Committee for the Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia, and was a Vice-President of that Party.
  • Fourth Great Grandson of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=14100
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