Duncan Kenneth MacTavish (August 3, 1899 – November 15, 1963) was a Canadian Senator. MacTavish was a millionaire and one of Canada's leading corporate lawyers."Still Seek Reason for Crash in which Senator MacTavish Died", ''Globe and Mail'', November 18, 1963 He was a chief Liberal Party strategist and fundraiser and was an advisor to three Liberal Prime Ministers - William Lyon Mackenzie King,

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and

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and had also known Sir Wilfrid Laurier, a friend of his father, as a youth."Senator MacTavish in politics 40 years", ''Toronto Star'', November 16, 1963 His father was Judge Duncan Byron MacTavish. He was educated in Ottawa and at

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and Osgoode Hall Law School before being admitted to the bar in 1926. In 1940, he married Janet Southam, daughter of ''

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'' publisher Harry Stevenson Southam and a member of the Southam family. He began advising Mackenzie King during election campaigns in the 1920s and was named as

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of the late prime minister's estate. He was president of the National Liberal Federation from 1952 to 1958 and had been a top Liberal campaign strategist for nearly 40 years at the time of his death. He was killed in an automobile collision on the Queen Elizabeth Way when returning home from the opening of the

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in Toronto. MacTavish was appointed to the

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in June 1963 by Prime Minister Pearson and served in the Senate for five months until the fatal accident. He was a senior partner in the Ottawa firm of Gowling, MacTavish, Osborne and Henderson and was an officer of 34 corporations as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of

. During World War II he served as deputy Judge Advocate General of the Royal Canadian Navy with the rank of captain. In the early 1950s he served as chairman of the Federal District Commission (the precursor of the

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) which was responsible for creating what became the National Capital Region.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:MacTavish, Duncan 1899 births 1963 deaths Canadian political consultants Canadian senators from Ontario Liberal Party of Canada senators Lawyers in Ontario