Abstract
The Honourable Thomas Clayton Davis (1889-1960) was an energetic and attractive man who was successively alderman and mayor in Prince Albert, member of the legislature of Saskatchewan, provincial cabinet minister, high court judge, federal deputy minister, high commissioner to Australia, and Canada's ambassador to China, West Germany, and Japan. Not the least interesting of his accomplishments was that although he was on the bench from 1939 to 1948 he sat on only two cases, having been seconded to other work as soon as he was appointed; he finally resigned after commendable consideration of the relative sizes of pension available to judges and to diplomats. He served twice in cabinets under the Honourable James Gardiner, his major portfolio that of attorney general, and was one of Gardiner's closest personal and political friends. When Gardiner left the premiership of Saskatchewan in 1935 to become federal minister of agriculture, Davis became one of his principal informants on provincial affairs, and the Davis-Gardiner correspondence is one of the most important series in the Gardiner Papers.1 It faltered in 1940, when Gardiner brought Davis to Ottawa to be his deputy in National War Services, a post Davis
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