James Patrick Fox

James Patrick Fox

James Patrick Fox (March 2 1860 – February 27 1899), Canadian politician and office holder, born in St. John’s to James and Bridget (Power) Fox.

Fox was the first person elected to the assembly under a new system under Prime Minister Sir William Whiteway legislation extending the right to vote in elections for the House of Assembly to all males 21 years of age and older.

Fox became a partner into his father’s firm, James Fox and Sons, in 1882. Fox senior had been a member of the Legislative Council, the upper house in the bicameral system of government under which Newfoundland operated in the period between 1855 and 1934. Such as it was Fox was exposed at an early age and it was something in which he developed a keen interest.

In 1888 he became a member of the first St. John’s municipal council. Consisted of seven members: five members elected on a ward system and two members appointed by the Newfoundland Government, Fox, along with James Goodfellow, who was the first chair of the council, was one of the government appointees.Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, Volume Two, (p. 360) ISBN 0-9693422-0-9]

At 30 years old, Fox left municipal council in 1890 when he was appointed to the Legislative Council by Prime Minister Sir William Whiteway. He then resigned Legislative Council to run in a by-election to fill a seat after Dr. John Dearin had died suddenly. Fox won the seat making him the first person elected to the House of Assembly under the new Manhood Suffrage Act of 1890. He was again reelected in St. John’s East in the general election of November 6 1893.

Fox was named as Receiver General, the chief financial officer in the administration. On January 6 1894, the Conservatives filed petitions under the Corrupt Practices Act charging 15 Liberals and Independent MHA James Murray with bribery and corruption. Fox was one of those charged. Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, Volume Two, (p. 360) ISBN 0-9693422-0-9]

On May 5, the court found Fox guilty as charged. His seat was declared vacant along with James Murphy and they were disqualified from running for election to the House of Assembly in future elections. Fox's brother, John F. Fox, ran for the Liberals in the Nov. 10 by-election and won the seat.Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, Volume Two, (p. 360) ISBN 0-9693422-0-9]

Fox had married Isabelle Langrishe LeGallais, a great-granddaughter of Dr. William Carson on September 21 1882. James Patrick Fox died at age 38 in 1899.

John, one of Isabelle and James' six children was Newfoundland’s Rhodes Scholar for 1911 and served with distinction in the Newfoundland Regiment in the First World War.

References and notes

ee also

* List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador
* List of communities in Newfoundland and Labrador


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