David McDougall

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, McDougall came to New Zealand with his wife in 1884, arriving at Port Chalmers on 11 May on the Aorangi.{{DNZB|Smith|Hallam |4m8|McDougall, David - Biography|1 November 2012}}

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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.{{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 }}{{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}}

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. 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.

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".(Leslie McKay, 1969) He retired to Dunedin, where he died in 1943, survived by 12 of his 13 children.

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• {{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= James Oakley |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}}

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