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Place of Birth: Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
About Donald Oliver
- Donald H.
- Oliver, (born November 16, 1938) is a Canadian lawyer, developer and politician.
- Appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Oliver was later elected in his own right, serving in the Senate of Canada from 1990 until 2013.
- He was the first African Canadian to have a seat in the Senate. A lawyer and real estate developer, Oliver is a member of Nova Scotia's Black minority.
- He is descended in part from African-American slave refugees who were resettled by the British in Canada from the United States after the War of 1812.
- But his maternal grandfather, William A.
- White, migrated independently in 1900 from Baltimore, Maryland.
- Oliver is the nephew of Canadian opera singer Portia White, politician Bill White and labour union activist Jack White, and the cousin of political strategist Sheila White.
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