Ronald Manning Fielding

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

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

{{Infobox officeholder

| image =

| name = Ronald Manning Fielding

| birth_date = {{birth date|1896|10|7}}

| birth_place = Rockingham, Nova Scotia

| death_date = {{death date and age|1972|3|1|1896|10|7}}

| death_place = St. Petersburg, Florida

| office1 = MLA for Halifax Northwest

| term_start1 = 1956

| term_end1 = 1960

| predecessor1 = new riding

| successor1 = Gordon H. Fitzgerald

| office2 = MLA for Halifax West

| term_start2 = 1941

| term_end2 = 1956

| predecessor2 = George E. Hagen

| successor2 = Charles H. Reardon

| party = Nova Scotia Liberal Party

| religion =

| occupation = lawyer

}}

Ronald Manning Fielding (October 7, 1896 – March 1, 1972) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Halifax West and Halifax Northwest in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1941 to 1960. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.{{cite web|url=http://nslegislature.ca/pdfs/about/ConstituencyHistories/clayton%20park%20west.pdf|title=Electoral History for Halifax West|publisher=Nova Scotia Legislative Library|accessdate=2015-05-09}}

Fielding was born in 1896 at Rockingham, Nova Scotia.{{cite book|last1=Elliott|first1=Shirley B.|title=The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1983 : a biographical directory|url=https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/69|accessdate=2018-05-15|year=1984|publisher=Public Archives of Nova Scotia|isbn=0-88871-050-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/69 69]}} He was educated at Dalhousie University, and was a lawyer by career. He was a municipal solicitor from 1931–1948, and a county prosecutor from 1933–1946. He married Marion Leck in 1945.

Fielding entered provincial politics in the 1941 election, winning the Halifax West riding.{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201941.pdf|title=Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1941|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|year=1941|page=49|accessdate=2015-05-03}} He was re-elected in the 1945{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201945.pdf|title=Election Returns 1945|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|year=1945|accessdate=2015-05-03}} and 1949 elections.{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201949.pdf|title=Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1949|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|year=1949|page=36|accessdate=2015-05-03}} In December 1949, Fielding was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Municipal Affairs. Fielding was re-elected in the 1953 election.{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201953.pdf|title=Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1953|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|year=1953|page=37|accessdate=2015-05-03}} In January 1954, Fielding was given an additional role in cabinet as Provincial Treasurer.{{cite news|title=Cabinet reduced from 11 to 9 in Nova Scotia|work=The Globe and Mail|date=January 20, 1954}} In June 1956, he was named Minister of Education. In the 1956 election, Fielding was re-elected in the newly established Halifax Northwest riding.{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201956.pdf|title=Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1956|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|year=1956|page=33|accessdate=2015-03-03}} Fielding was defeated when he ran for re-election in 1960, losing his seat by 27 votes to Progressive Conservative Gordon H. Fitzgerald.{{cite web|url=http://electionsnovascotia.ca/sites/default/files/General%20Election%201960.pdf|title=Returns of General Election for the House of Assembly 1960|publisher=Elections Nova Scotia|year=1960|page=42|accessdate=2015-03-03}}

In 1965, Fielding was appointed to the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, serving until his retirement in 1968. He died at St. Petersburg, Florida on March 1, 1972.