{{Short description|New Zealand politician}} {{for|the Scottish footballer|David McDougall (footballer)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2014}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=August 2014}} thumb|150px|McDougall in 1935. '''David (Davie) McDougall''' (14 July 1858 – 7 November 1943) was a United Party and an Independent Member of Parliament for Mataura, in the South Island of New Zealand.
==Biography== ===Early life=== Born in Glasgow, Scotland, McDougall came to New Zealand with his wife in 1884, arriving at Port Chalmers on 11 May on the ''Aorangi''.<ref name="DNZB McDougall">{{DNZB|Smith|Hallam |4m8|McDougall, David - Biography|1 November 2012}}</ref>
===Political career=== {{NZ parlbox header|nolist=true|align=right}} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1928}} |end = 1931 |term = 23rd |electorate = {{NZ electorate link|Mataura}} |party = United Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1931}} |end = 1933 |term = 24th |electorate = Mataura |party = United Party (New Zealand) }} {{NZ parlbox allegiance |start = 1933 |end = 1935 |party = Independent politician }} {{NZ parlbox |start = {{NZ election link year|1935}} |end = 1938 |term = 25th |electorate = Mataura |party = Independent politician }} {{End}}
McDougall served on the Gore Borough Council and was Mayor of Gore in 1913, 1915–1919, 1921–1923 and 1927–1928. He unsuccessfully contested the {{NZ electorate link|Mataura}} electorate in the {{NZ election link|1919}} as an Independent Liberal, defeated by the incumbent, George James Anderson.<ref name="Year-Book 1920">{{cite book |title=The New Zealand Official Year-Book |year=1920 |publisher=Government Printer |url=http://www3.stats.govt.nz/New_Zealand_Official_Yearbooks/1920/NZOYB_1920.html#idsect1_1_40386 |access-date=2 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140901182637/http://www3.stats.govt.nz/New_Zealand_Official_Yearbooks/1920/NZOYB_1920.html#idsect1_1_40386 |archive-date=1 September 2014 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The Mataura Election |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=ODT19191209.2.36 |access-date=8 November 2014 |work=Otago Daily Times |issue=17803 |date=9 December 1919 |page=6}}</ref>
He represented the Mataura electorate in the House of Representatives for ten years from {{NZ election link year|1928}} to 1938, when he was defeated.{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=215}}
In the 1928 and {{NZ election link|1931}}s elections, he was elected as a United Party MP. In 1933, he had voted with Labour members in Parliament on a no-confidence motion and was then excluded from the Coalition Government caucus.<ref name="DNZB McDougall" /> In the {{NZ election link|1935}} McDougall stood as an Independent, and was not opposed by Labour. He was successful,{{sfn|Wilson|1985|p=215}} and generally voted with Labour.{{sfn|Milne|1966|p=76}} He was defeated in the {{NZ election link|1938}} by National's Tom Macdonald.<ref name="DNZB McDougall" />
Davie McDougall was a conspicuous figure in Parliament with his tartan waistcoat and colourful language and behaviour. John A. Lee wrote that McDougall developed a habit of "peppering his talk with humorous asides", which became part of his style as a politician.{{sfn|Thomson|1998|pp=298–299}}
Davie McDougall ''"spoke out for the social and economic progress for the people he represented so well and carved for himself a unique place in New Zealand's political history"''.<ref>(Leslie McKay, 1969)</ref> He retired to Dunedin, where he died in 1943, survived by 12 of his 13 children.<ref name="DNZB McDougall" />
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==References== *{{cite book |title=Southern People: A Dictionary of Otago and Southland Biography |editor-first1=Jane |editor-last1=Thomson |date=1998 |publisher=Dunedin City Council |location=Dunedin}} *{{cite book |first = Robert Stephen |last = Milne |title = Political Parties in New Zealand |url= https://archive.org/details/politicalparties0000miln |url-access= registration |place = Oxford, England |publisher = Clarendon Press |year = 1966}} *{{cite book |last= Wilson |first= Jim | author-link=Jim Wilson (librarian) |title= New Zealand Parliamentary Record, 1840–1984 |edition= 4th |orig-year= First ed. published 1913 |year= 1985 |publisher= V.R. Ward, Govt. Printer |location= Wellington |oclc=154283103}} *{{cite book |editor-last=Wood |editor-first=G. Anthony |title=Ministers and Members: In the New Zealand Parliament |year=1996 |publisher=Otago University Press |location=Dunedin}}
{{S-start}} {{s-par | nz}} {{s-bef | before= George James Anderson}} {{s-ttl | title= Member of Parliament for Mataura | years= 1928–1938 }} {{s-aft | after= Tom Macdonald}} {{s-end}}
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