Editing Allison Dysart

{{short description|Canadian politician, lawyer and judge}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name          = A. Allison Dysart
| image         = Allison Dysart newspaper1938.png
| caption       = Dysart, pictured in a 1938 newspaper
| order         = 22nd [[Premier of New Brunswick]]
| term_start    = July 16, 1935
| term_end      = March 13, 1940
| predecessor   = [[Leonard Percy de Wolfe Tilley|Leonard P. D. Tilley]]
| successor     = [[John B. McNair]]
| monarch       = [[George V]]<br>[[Edward VIII]]<br>[[George VI]]
| lieutenant_governor = [[Murray MacLaren]]<br>[[William George Clark (politician)|William G. Clark]]
| office1       = [[Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick|MLA]] for [[Kent (1827-1974 electoral district)|Kent]]
| term_start1   = February 24, 1917
| term_end1     = March 13, 1940
| predecessor1  = [[Thomas-Jean Bourque]]<br>[[David-Vital Landry]] 
| successor1    = [[J. Killeen McKee]]
| alongside1    = [[Philias J. Melanson]], [[Auguste Bordage]], [[R. G. Richard]], [[François G. Richard]], [[Isaie Melanson]]
| birth_date    = {{birth date|1880|3|22|mf=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Cocagne, New Brunswick]], Canada
| death_date    = {{death date and age |1962|12|8|1880|3|22}} 
| death_place   = [[Moncton|Moncton, New Brunswick]], Canada
| party         = [[New Brunswick Liberal Association|Liberal]]
| spouse        = {{marriage|Blanche Cannel McDougall|1916}}
| children      = 1 son and 2 daughters
| alma_mater    = [[Ontario Agricultural College]]<br>[[Dalhousie Law School]]
| occupation    = lawyer and judge
| profession    = politician
|}}
'''Albert Allison Dysart''' (March 22, 1880 &ndash; December 8, 1962) was a [[New Brunswick]] politician, lawyer and judge.<ref>[http://www.gnb.ca/legis/leglibbib/Special_Projects/premiers-bios/english/AADysart.pdf Biography, New Brunswick Legislative Library] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081219204041/http://www.gnb.ca/legis/leglibbib/special_projects/premiers-bios/english/AADysart.pdf |date=2008-12-19 }}</ref>

== Life ==
Dysart was born in [[Cocagne, New Brunswick]] and had an ancestry of Scottish and English Loyalist. Initially having an interest in farming, he graduated from the [[University of St. Joseph's College]] in [[Memramcook, New Brunswick|Memramcook]] where he got a [[Master of Arts]], and received further education at the [[Ontario Agricultural College]]. Years later, Dysart would enter [[Dalhousie Law School]] and in 1914 he was called to the bar,<ref>{{cite news |title=Dysart Enjoyed Wide Bipartisan Respect |url=https://da.tj.news/viewer?opub=Daily_Gleaner&date=19821002&page=7&filename=6624_DG_1982-1983 |access-date=2 September 2023 |work=Daily Gleaner |date=October 2, 1982}}</ref> setting up practice in [[Bouctouche, New Brunswick|Bouctouche]]. He was elected to the provincial legislature in 1917 and served as [[Speaker (politics)|Speaker]] from 1921 to 1925 and served briefly as [[Department of Natural Resources (New Brunswick)|Minister of Lands and Mines]] in 1925 until the defeat of the [[Liberal Party of New Brunswick|Liberal]] government.

In 1926, Dysart succeeded [[Peter J. Veniot]] as leader of the Liberal party. In 1935 the Liberals returned to power and Dysart became the 22nd [[premier of New Brunswick]]. Dysart also served as his own Minister of Public Works from 1935 to 1938, and Chairman of the New Brunswick Electric Power Commission, from 1938 until his retirement from politics. His government introduced the first ''Landlord and Tenants Act'' in 1938 and updated the ''Labour Relations Act''. It attempted to create jobs in the [[Great Depression]] through extensive road construction. After suffering from poor health from some time, he led the government to re-election in 1939 and resigned in 1940<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8020558/dysart_retires_mcnair_is_new_nb/|title=Dysart Retires; McNair Is New N.B. Premier|work=The Winnipeg Tribune|date=8 Mar 1940|page=13|via=Newspapers.com|accessdate=27 December 2016}}</ref> to become a County Court Judge of Westmorland and Kent Counties. He served in that position until his retirement in 1955.

His former home in Shediac, New Brunswick is a registered historic place. He lived there from 1943 until his death.<ref>[http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=5521 Albert Allison Dysart Residence]</ref>

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| post1         = [[Department of Natural Resources (New Brunswick)|Minister of Lands and Mines]]
| post1years    = 1925
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| post1preceded = [[Peter J. Veniot]]
| post1followed = [[Charles Dow Richards|Charles D. Richards]]
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