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Hon. William MacDonald
	Hon. William MacDonald
7th Leader of the Opposition
	In office; 21 January 1920 – 31 August 1920
Preceded by	Joseph Ward
Succeeded by	Thomas Wilford
Constituency	Bay of Plenty
Born	1862;
Died	31 August 1920;

William Donald Stuart MacDonald (1862 – 31 August 1920) was a New Zealand politician, Cabinet Minister, and briefly Leader of the Opposition.

[edit] Member of Parliament

Years	Term	Electorate	Party
1908–1911	17th	Bay of Plenty	Liberal
1911–1914	18th	Bay of Plenty	Liberal
1914–1919	19th	Bay of Plenty	Liberal
1919–1920	20th	Bay of Plenty	Liberal

He was Member of the House of Representatives for the Bay of Plenty from 1908 to 1920. He served as Minister of Public Works and Minister of Māori Affairs in the short lived 1912 cabinet of Thomas Mackenzie. He also served in the wartime (1915 - 1919) National cabinet as Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Mines and Minister in Charge of the Legislative, Public Buildings, Inspection of Machinery, State Fire and Accident Insurance Departments.

In 1919, following Joseph Ward's failure to gain re-election, MacDonald was elected leader of the Liberal Party. He filled that role until his death in 1920.

[edit] Further reading

MacDonald, William Donald Stuart (1914), Liberal campaign: speech delivered by Mr. W.D.S. Macdonald, M.P. for Bay of Plenty, at Te Karaka, May 7th, 1914., Gisborne, [N.Z.]: Printed at the Herald Office

Reprinted from the Poverty Bay Herald, Friday May 8th, 1914" p.3.

Mackay, Joseph Angus (1949), Historic Poverty Bay and the East Coast, N.I., N.Z., Gisborne, [N.Z.]: Joseph Angus Mackay, pp. 358–359, http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-MacHist-t1-body-d38-d7.html#n408

[edit] External links

Bay of Plenty MPs 1893-1941

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