Dewar's work for the Scottish Parliament has led him to be called by some the "Father of the Nation" despite some of the difficulties that the Scottish Parliament has suffered in its early years.

In May 2002, the Prime Minister, Tony Blair unveiled a statue of Dewar at the top of Glasgow's Buchanan Street — and in keeping with his famous unkempt appearance, it showed Dewar wearing a slightly crushed jacket. The statue was taken down in October 2005 to be cleaned and was re-erected on 6 foot high plinth in December of the same year in an effort to protect it. On the base of the statue were inscribed the opening words of the Scotland Act: There Shall Be A Scottish Parliament, a phrase to which Dewar himself famously said I Like That! .

Dewar notoriously called the Royal High School on Calton Hill in Edinburgh a "nationalist shibboleth", mainly because it had been the proposed site of the Scottish Assembly if the 1979 referendum had passed. Dewar's opposition to the Calton Hill site partly contributed to the selection of the Holyrood site, which proved massively expensive.

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References

Torrance, David, The Scottish Secretaries (Birlinn 2006)

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Lady Tweedsmuir	Member of Parliament for Aberdeen South 1966–1970	Succeeded by Iain Sproat
Preceded by William Small	Member of Parliament for Glasgow Garscadden 1978–1997	Succeeded by constituency abolished
Preceded by new constituency	Member of Parliament for Glasgow Anniesland 1997–2000	Succeeded by John Robertson
Scottish Parliament
Preceded by Constituency Created	Member of the Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Anniesland 1999–2000	Succeeded by Bill Butler
Political offices
Preceded by Michael Forsyth	Secretary of State for Scotland 1997–1999	Succeeded by Dr John Reid
Preceded by Office Created	First Minister of Scotland 1999–2000	Succeeded by Henry McLeish
Party political offices
Preceded by Office Created	Leader of Labour in the Scottish Parliament 1999–2000	Succeeded by Henry McLeish

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