Hugh John Flemming

Hugh John Flemming

Infobox Prime Minister
honorific-prefix = The Honourable

name = Hugh John Flemming

honorific-suffix = MLA, PC


caption =
order = 24th
office = Premier of New Brunswick
term_start = October 8, 1952
term_end = July 11, 1960
lieutenant_governor =
predecessor = John B. McNair
successor = Louis J. Robichaud
birth_date = birth date|1899|01|05
birth_place = Peel, New Brunswick
death_date = death date and age|1982|10|16|1899|01|05
death_place = Fredericton, New Brunswick
party = Progressive Conservative
spouse = Aida McAnn (1896-1994)
religion = Protestant|

Hugh John Flemming, PC (born January 5, 1899, in Peel, New Brunswick, Canada – died October 16, 1982, in Fredericton, New Brunswick) was a politician and Premier of New Brunswick.

He is always known as "Hugh John". The son of James Kidd Flemming, Premier of New Brunswick from 1911 to 1914, Hugh John Flemming was first elected to the province's Legislative Assembly in 1944 after more than twenty years as a municipal councillor. In 1951 he became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick leading the party to victory in 1952. As Premier, Flemming modernized the province's hydro system, built the Beechwood Dam, the then largest project of its kind, and presented a balanced budget every year in office. In 1960 his government was defeated over the issue of hospital taxes.

Follow the defeat of his provincial government, he was named Minister of Forestry in the cabinet of Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker and later became Minister of National Revenue in 1962. He sought a seat in a by-election in southern New Brunswick in 1960 and was re-elected to his home district four times before he retired from the Canadian House of Commons in 1972. His son, Hugh John Flemming, Jr. ran for a seat in the New Brunswick Legislature in 1974 but lost to Shirley Dysart by 73 votes.

Throughout his years as a public servant, Hugh John Flemming distinguished himself as a man of honesty and integrity. His family-run lumber mill in the village of Juniper, New Brunswick ran into financial difficulties in the late 1970s, but his impeccable reputation was such that his friend, but staunch Liberal Party supporter, Harrison McCain, organized an investment campaign that raised sufficient capital from businessmen to allow the mill to make a financial recovery. The company today is now owned by Nexfor Inc. of Toronto, Ontario.

Hugh John Flemming and his wife Aida are buried in the Methodist Church Cemetery in Woodstock, New Brunswick.

External links

* [http://www.gnb.ca/legis/leglibbib/special_projects/premiers-bios/english/HJFlemming.pdf Government of New Brunswick biography]
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ministry box cabinet posts 2
post2preceded = George Nowlan
post2 = Minister of National Revenue
post2years = 1962-1963
post2note =
post2followed = Jack Garland

post1preceded = New portfolio
post1 = Minister of Forestry
post1note =
post1years = 1960-1963
post1followed = Martial Asselin
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