Frederick Gordon Bradley

Frederick Gordon Bradley PC QC (born March 21, 1888 in St. John’s , Newfoundland , † March 30, 1966 ) was a Canadian Liberal Party politician who served in the 17th cabinet of Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent and for several years up to was a member of the Senate on his death .

Life

Lawyer, minister and opposition leader in Newfoundland

Bradley began after school in 1909 to study law at Dalhousie University and graduated with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). After his legal admission he took in 1915 working as a barrister and was for his lawyer's merits later Attorney-General (Queen's Counsel) appointed.

On June 1, 1924 Bradley was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Party in the constituency of Port Grave for the first time to the House of Representatives of Newfoundland and belonged to this after his resignation from the Conservative Party since May 1, 1926 as a non-party . In June 1924 he was appointed Minister without Portfolio by the Prime Minister of Dominion Newfoundland , Walter Stanley Monroe , and held this ministerial office until May 1926.

In 1928 he joined the Liberal Party, and was elected as its candidate in the 1928 election in the Trinity Center constituency, before he last represented the Humber Valley constituency between 1932 and 1934 . He took over on June 1, 1929, in the cabinet of Prime Minister Richard Squires, the office of Solicitor General of the government of the Dominion Newfoundland and held this office until June 1932. Most recently he acted between June 1932 and January 1934 as chairman of the faction of the Liberal Party and was thus as leader of the opposition opponent of Prime Minister Frederick Alderdice of the United Newfoundland Party in the Newfoundland House of Representatives. In January 1934 he retired from political life and resumed his practice as a lawyer.

Member of the House of Commons, Federal Minister and Senator

On April 1, 1949 Bradley was appointed Secretary of State for Canada by Prime Minister Louis Saint-Laurent and was as such head of the Government Chancellery of the 17th Canadian Cabinet until his resignation on June 11, 1953.

In the election of June 27, 1949 , he was also elected as a candidate for the Liberal Party as a member of the House of Commons , where he represented the constituency of Bonavista-Twillingate in Newfoundland until he voluntarily resigned his mandate on June 11, 1953 .

After leaving the government and the House of Commons, Bradley was appointed a member of the Senate on June 12, 1953 on the proposal of Prime Minister Saint-Laurent and represented the Senate district of Bonavista-Twillingate until his death on March 30, 1966 .

Web links and sources

• Frederick Gordon Bradley - biographical information on the website of the Canadian Parliament (English)
• Canadian Ministries at rulers.org