Mary Dreaver

Mary Dreaver
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Waitemata
In office
19 July 1941 – 25 September 1943
Preceded byJack Lyon
Succeeded byHenry Thorne Morton
New Zealand Legislative Councillor
In office
31 January 1946 – 31 December 1950
Appointed byPeter Fraser
Personal details
Born
Mary Manson Bain

(1887-03-31)31 March 1887
Dunedin, New Zealand
Died19 July 1961(1961-07-19) (aged 74)
Auckland, New Zealand
Political partyLabour
Spouse
Andrew James Dreaver
(m. 1911)
Children6
ProfessionJournalist

Mary Manson Dreaver MBE (née Bain, 31 March 1887 – 19 July 1961) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. She was the third woman to sit in the New Zealand House of Representatives, one of the first two women to sit in the New Zealand Legislative Council, and the only woman to sit in both chambers.