Don Toth

{{Short description|Canadian politician (born 1948)}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = |

| name = Don Toth

| caption =

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1948|5|31}}

| birth_place = Kipling, Saskatchewan

| death_date =

| residence = Langbank, Saskatchewan

| office = 24th Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

| term_start = December 10, 2007

| term_end = October 10, 2011

| predecessor = Myron Kowalsky

| successor = Dan D'Autremont

| office1 = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for Moosomin

| term_start1 = October 20, 1986

| term_end1 = April 4, 2016

| predecessor1 = Larry Birkbeck

| successor1 = Steven Bonk

| party = Progressive Conservative (1980–1997)
Saskatchewan Party (1997–present)

| occupation = Farmer

| alma_mater = University of Saskatchewan
Eston College

}}

Donald James Toth (born May 31, 1948) is a Canadian retired provincial politician. He was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan during the first term of the Saskatchewan Party government of Premier Brad Wall, from 2007 to 2011. He represented the constituency of Moosomin in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1986 to 2016. While he was originally elected as a member of the Progressive Conservatives, he and some other Tories and Liberals co-founded the Saskatchewan Party in 1997.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y746xOWGfcUC&q=Toth&pg=PA56|title=Saskatchewan Politicians: Lives Past and Present|year=2004|isbn=9780889771659}} On December 10, 2007, he was elected Speaker by acclamation. Dan D'Autremont defeated him in the speakership election in the second term of the Wall government (2011–2016).

He was educated at the University of Saskatchewan and the Full Gospel Bible Institution in Eston (now Eston College).

Toth did not run for reelection in 2016. He was the last sitting legislator who had served during the Grant Devine government of the 1980s.

References

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  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100213182547/http://www.legassembly.sk.ca/members/Bios/toth.htm Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan MLA Biography]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20061024121732/http://www.saskparty.com/index.cfm?page=115 Saskatchewan Party MLA Biography]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070210183943/http://www.dontoth.ca/ Don Toth's webpage]

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Category:Living people

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Category:Saskatchewan Party MLAs

Category:Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

Category:21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan

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Category:University of Saskatchewan alumni

Category:Canadian people of Hungarian descent

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