David Whiteside

David Whiteside (February 6, 1870 – March 8, 1947) was a Canadian politician.

He served in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1916 to 1924, as a Liberal member for the constituency of New Westminster.

[1] While he did not seek re-election in the 1924 provincial election, he did run unsuccessfully as a BC Liberal candidate in the 1928 provincial election in the Dewdney constituency and as an Independent candidate endorsed by the Independent Co-operative Commonwealth Federation association in the 1933 provincial election in the New Westminster constituency.

Born in the Toronto suburb of Scarborough Township, Ontario, he was a lawyer and judge, educated at Osgoode Hall Law School and first called to the Ontario Bar in 1895.

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