Salter Adrian Hayden

Salter Adrian Hayden (May 31, 1896 – January 5, 1987) was a Canadian lawyer and senator.

Born in Ottawa, he received his education from the University of Ottawa and Osgoode Hall Law School. He joined the law form of McCarthy and McCarthy (now McCarthy Tétrault) in 1923 and became a partner in 1929. He resigned from the firm in 1983. He ran unsuccessfully in the Toronto riding of St. Paul's in the 1935 federal election.

He was appointed to the Senate in February 1940 by Prime Minister Mackenzie King, representing the senatorial division of Toronto, Ontario. He sat as a Liberal and was the chairman of the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce. Hayden helped change the law on selling margarine in Canada. He helped develop the Senate rule, 74.(1), which enabled Senate committees to study bills tabled in the House of Commons before they were passed and sent to the Senate. It is also known as the “Hayden formula.” He resigned from the Senate on November 1, 1983 due to ill health.

In 1940, he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Ottawa. On December 29 1986, Hayden was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He died a week later at age 90.

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* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=1069&s=M Political biography from the Library of Parliament]