James Joseph Hayes Doone (August 8, 1888 – April 6, 1953) was a Canadian lawyer and political figure in the
Province of New Brunswick.
Frequently documented as J. J. Hayes Doone, he was born in the hamlet of
Deadman's Harbour near
Blacks Harbour on the
Bay of Fundy shore in southwestern New Brunswick.
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attestation papers
state that he was born in nearby Pennfield. During
World War I
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, he served overseas with the
104th Battalion,
Canadian Expeditionary Force.
In the
1935 New Brunswick general election, he was elected to the
Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick
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as the
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member for
Charlotte County. On January 10, 1940,
Premier Allison Dysart
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Dysart was born in Cocagne, New Brunswick and was educated at University of St. Joseph's College in Memramcook, the Ontario Agricul ...
appointed Hayes Doone to his
Cabinet as the
Provincial Secretary-Treasurer (Minister of Finance). He served in that capacity for three months then for more than nine years for Dysart's successor,
John B. McNair.
J. J. Hayes Doone resigned from Cabinet and from the Legislature on August 10, 1949 following his June 25, 1949 appointment to the
Senate of Canada by
Canadian Prime Minister
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Louis St. Laurent. He served as the Senate member for Charlotte County division until his death in 1953 at age sixty-four.
Quotes
"The calamities of the
Maritimes have always been casually passed along as acts of God, over which governments have no responsibility; while apparently, from the official point of view, Divinity does not operate in other sectors of Canada."
:- J. J. Hayes Doone, March 26, 1952 p. 97 ''Senate of Canada Debates'' (quoted on p. 567 in the ''Dictionary of Canadian Quotations'')
References
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1888 births
Canadian military personnel from New Brunswick
Canadian Army soldiers
Canadian Expeditionary Force soldiers
1953 deaths
Canadian military personnel of World War I
Lawyers in New Brunswick
New Brunswick Liberal Association MLAs
Members of the Executive Council of New Brunswick
Canadian senators from New Brunswick
People from Charlotte County, New Brunswick
Finance ministers of New Brunswick