Hugh John Flemming

Hugh John Flemming PC (born January 5, 1899 in Peel , New Brunswick , † October 16, 1982 ) was a Canadian entrepreneur and politician of the Conservative Party of Canada and later the Progressive Conservative Party (PC), who was Prime Minister of 1952-1960 New Brunswick was. He was then for almost twelve years a member of the House of Commons and between 1960 and 1963 minister of various departments in the 18th Canadian cabinet of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker .

Life

Opposition leader and Prime Minister of New Brunswick

Flemming was the son of James Kidd Flemming , who was also Prime Minister of New Brunswick between 1911 and 1914 and a Member of the House of Commons from 1925 until his death in 1927. Like his father, he was a woodcutter and businessman by profession.

He began his political career in local politics as a member of the Carleton County Council , of which he was a member between 1921 and 1933. In the election of October 14, 1935 , he ran for the Conservative Party of Canada in the constituency of Victoria-Carleton unsuccessfully for the first time for a member of the Lower House.

In the mid-1940s, Flemming focused on political work in the province of New Brunswick and was elected to the New Brunswick Legislative Assembly in the Carleton constituency on August 28, 1944 , and was a member of this for more than 16 years until October 1960. During this time was as chairman of the faction of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick opposition leader .

After the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick won the election to the Legislative Assembly on 22 September 1952, possessed with 36 of the 52 seats on an absolute majority, Flemming was born on October 8, 1952 successor to John Babbitt McNair of the New Brunswick Liberal Association as Prime Minister of New Brunswick and held this office until July 11, 1960. At the same time he served from October 8, 1952 to July 1958 as Minister of Public Works and then from July 1958 to July 12, 1960 as Minister of Community Affairs. In the election for the legislative assembly on June 18, 1956, his party was able to expand its lead slightly and got 37 of the 52 seats.

In the election to the legislative assembly on June 27, 1960, the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick suffered an electoral defeat and only got 21 of the 52 seats, while the New Brunswick Liberal Association got 31 seats and with Louis Robichaud on July 12, 1960 could again provide the prime minister. Flemming then took over the office of opposition leader again.

Member of the House of Commons and Federal Minister

A few months later Flemming left provincial politics and was appointed to the 18th Cabinet by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker on October 11, 1960, where he was Minister of Forestry until the end of Diefenbaker's tenure on March 17, 1963.

A few weeks later he was elected for the first time as a member of the lower house in a by-election in the Royal constituency on October 31, 1960. After he was re-elected in the election of June 18, 1962 in the Victoria-Charlotte constituency , he represented the Carleton-Charlotte constituency from the June 25, 1968 election until he left the House of Commons on October 29, 1972.

Most recently, he was in the Diefenbaker cabinet between July 18 and August 8, 1962, also acting minister for mining and technical assessment, and most recently from August 9, 1962 to the end of Diefenbaker's term on April 21, 1963, additionally minister for national income.

After the defeat of his party in the general election of April 8, 1963 , he acted until 1968 as spokesman for the opposition PC faction for forestry.

The Hugh John Flemming Forestry Center in Fredericton was named in his honor. It houses the largest and at the same time leading research center in central Canada and cooperates with the University of New Brunswick .

Web links and sources

• CV on the home page of the Canadian Parliament

Individual evidence

1. ^ Canadian provinces AN - Rulers in rulers.org
2. ^ Canadian Ministries at rulers.org