Dana Porter

Dana Porter
MPP for St. George
In office 1943–1958
Preceded by	Ian Thomas Strachan
Succeeded by	Allan Lawrence
Personal details
Born	January 14, 1901(1901-01-14) Toronto, Ontario
Died	May 13, 1967(1967-05-13) (aged 66)
Political party	Conservative
Profession	Lawyer, judge

Dana Harris Porter (January 14, 1901 – May 13, 1967) was a Canadian politician and jurist.

After graduating from the University of Toronto in 1921, Porter went to England to continue his studies at Balliol College, Oxford from which he graduated with a Master's degree in 1923. He returned to Toronto where he was called to the bar, and joined the firm of Fennel, Porter & Davis.

Porter entered politics winning a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the downtown Toronto riding of St. George in the 1943 provincial election that brought the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario to power.

He joined the cabinet of Ontario Premier George Drew as Minister of Planning and Development in 1944. In 1947, he instituted an airlift of 10,000 British immigrants to the province over the objections of the federal government. In 1948, he was appointed Minister of Education and Provincial Secretary. When Drew left provincial politics to take the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Porter ran to succeed him as provincial leader, but won only 65 votes in the 1949 provincial Tory leadership convention. He lost to Leslie Frost.^{[citation needed]}

In 1958, Porter left politics to accept an appointment as Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal. He made a notable ruling in 1964, lifting a ban on the book Fanny Hill.

Dana Porter's son, Julian Porter, is a Canadian copyright and libel lawyer who ran unsuccessfully in the 1985 provincial election as a Progressive Conservative in the same riding formerly represented by his father.

External links

• Legislative Assembly of Ontario biography

Political offices
Preceded by Leslie Frost	Treasurer of Ontario 1955–1958	Succeeded by Leslie Frost
Academic offices
Preceded by New position	Chancellor of the University of Waterloo 1960–1966	Succeeded by Ira G. Needles

Persondata
Name	Porter, Dana
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	January 14, 1901
Place of birth	Toronto, Ontario
Date of death	May 13, 1967
Place of death