Jim Smith (Nova Scotia politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Canadian politician, born 1935
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Place of Birth: Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada
About Jim Smith (Nova Scotia politician)
- James Alexander Smith (born May 25, 1935) is a Canadian politician.
- He represented the electoral district of Dartmouth East in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1984 to 2003.
- He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.Smith was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia in 1935, and grew up in Port Mouton.
- Smith graduated with a medical degree from Dalhousie University in 1964.
- He practiced family medicine in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia for almost 30 years.
- Smith first attempted to enter provincial politics in the 1981 election, but was defeated by Progressive Conservative incumbent Richard L.
- Weldon.
- Smith ran again in the 1984 election, defeating Weldon by 903 votes to win the Dartmouth East riding.
- One of only six Liberals elected, Smith spent the early years of his political career in opposition.
- He was re-elected in the 1988 election, winning the seat by 253 votes.
- Smith was re-elected in the 1993 election, defeating cabinet minister Gwen Haliburton by almost 2,500 votes.
- Following the election, Smith would get to sit in government for the first time, as the Liberals under John Savage won a majority government.On June 11, 1993, Smith was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Community Services.
- On June 27, 1996, Savage shuffled his cabinet, with Smith being named Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs.
- On June 6, 1997, Savage announced that Smith would take over as Minister of Health on June 9, when Bernie Boudreau resigns from cabinet to run for the Liberal leadership.
- Smith remained as Minister of Health when Russell MacLellan took over as premier on July 18, 1997.
- Smith was re-elected in the 1998 election, and retained the health portfolio, but was also named Minister of Justice.
- In December 1998, Smith was replaced as Minister of Justice, as MacLellan shuffled his cabinet to reduce the heavy workload of some of the cabinet.
- Smith was re-elelcted by 265 votes in the 1999 election, but the Liberals were defeated by John Hamm's Progressive Conservatives.
- Smith served in opposition for one term, announcing on May 2, 2003, that he would not seek re-election in the next election.
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