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David Croll

Published Online March 4, 2008

Last Edited December 16, 2013

David Arnold Croll, lawyer, politician (b at Moscow, Russia 12 Mar 1900; d at Ottawa 10 June 1991). Elected a Liberal MLA in 1934, he became the first Jewish Cabinet minister but resigned in April 1937 over Premier HEPBURN's opposition to industrial unionism.

Croll, David Arnold

David Arnold Croll, lawyer, politician (b at Moscow, Russia 12 Mar 1900; d at Ottawa 10 June 1991). Elected a Liberal MLA in 1934, he became the first Jewish Cabinet minister but resigned in April 1937 over Premier HEPBURN's opposition to industrial unionism. Croll served in the Canadian Army 1939-45 and was MP for Toronto-Spadina 1945-55. Appointed the first Jewish senator in 1955, he was responsible for several studies on poverty and aging.