- Frederick Gordon Bradley
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honorific-prefix = The Honourable
name = Frederick Gordon Bradley
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constituency_MP =Bonavista—Twillingate
parliament = Canadian
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predecessor = Riding created
successor =Jack Pickersgill
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birth_date = birth date|1888|03|21
birth_place =St. John's, Newfoundland
death_date = death date and age|1966|03|30|1888|03|21
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party = Liberal
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footnotes =Frederick Gordon Bradley, PC, QC (
March 21 1888 –March 30 1966 ) was a Canadian andDominion of Newfoundland politician.Born in
St. John's, Newfoundland , the son of Norman Bradley and Evangeline Trimm, he became the principal of the Methodist School in Bonavista after finishing his education at Methodist College in 1906. Three years later, he studied law atDalhousie University and was called to the bar in 1915. Later he started his own law practice.In 1924, he was elected to the House of Assembly representing the electoral district of Port de Grave. A Conservative, he was a
Minister without Portfolio in the cabinet ofWalter Stanley Monroe until he resigned from the caucus in 1926 to site as an Independent. He was re-elected in 1928 representing the electoral district of Trinity Centre. A Liberal, he was a Minister without Portfolio and Solicitor-General in the cabinet ofRichard Squires . Re-elected in 1932, as only one of two Liberals, he was the leader of the opposition. An opponent of the creation of theCommission of Government , he returned to his law practice in 1933.He was a delegate to the
Newfoundland National Convention and after the death ofCyril J. Fox he became the chairman. After Newfoundland joined Canada, he was appointedSecretary of State of Canada by Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, making him the first Canadian federal cabinet minister from Newfoundland. He was elected to theCanadian House of Commons representing the riding ofBonavista—Twillingate in the 1949 federal election. In 1953, he was called to theCanadian Senate representing the senatorial division of Bonavista-Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador. He died in office in 1966.References
* [http://www.collectionscanada.ca/confederation/023001-2308-e.html Frederick Gordon Bradley]
External links
* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=2390&s=M Synopsis of federal political experience from the Library of Parliament]
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Member of Parliament fromBonavista—Twillingate
years=1949–1953
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