Graham Flight
Graham Flight | |
|---|---|
| MHA for Windsor-Buchans | |
| In office 1975–1982 | |
| MHA for Windsor-Buchans | |
| In office 1985–1987 | |
| Succeeded by | Clyde Wells |
| MHA for Windsor-Buchans | |
| In office 1989–1996 | |
| Preceded by | Clyde Wells |
| Succeeded by | riding dissolved |
| MHA for Windsor-Springdale | |
| In office 1996–1999 | |
| Preceded by | new district |
| Succeeded by | Ray Hunter |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1935 or 1936 (age 88–89) |
| Political party | Liberal |
Graham Ralph Flight (born 1936) is a former Canadian politician, who represented the districts of Windsor-Buchans and Windsor-Springdale in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.[1][2]
Flight was born at Cottle's Island and was raised in Buchans. He was a teacher and also served as chair of the board of trustees for Buchans.[3]
He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly as a member of the Liberal Party in 1975. Flight was reelected in 1979, defeated in 1982 and was elected again in 1985.[4] He resigned his seat to allow Clyde Wells to run for a seat in the assembly in a 1987 by-election. He was reelected in 1989. Flight served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Forestry and Agriculture.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Newfoundland and Labrador Votes 2007: Grand Falls-Windsor/Green Bay South. cbc.ca.
- ^ "Newfoundland Liberal resigns for new leader". The Globe and Mail, June 27, 1987. p. A4.
- ^ a b Cuff, Robert H; Baker, Melvin; Pitt, Robert DW (1990). Dictionary of Newfoundland and Labrador Biography. H. Cuff. ISBN 0-921191-51-0.
- ^ "Grand Falls-Windsor-Green Bay South". Newfoundland and Labrador Votes 2007. CBC News.
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