Graham Flight

Graham Ralph Flight (born 1936) is a Canadian former politician, who represented the districts of Windsor-Buchans and Windsor-Springdale in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.[1][2]

Graham Flight
MHA for Windsor-Buchans
In office
1975–1982
MHA for Windsor-Buchans
In office
1985–1987
Succeeded byClyde Wells
MHA for Windsor-Buchans
In office
1989–1996
Preceded byClyde Wells
Succeeded byriding dissolved
MHA for Windsor-Springdale
In office
1996–1999
Preceded bynew district
Succeeded byRay Hunter
Personal details
Born1935 or 1936 (age 87–88)
Political partyLiberal

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

  1. Newfoundland and Labrador Votes 2007: Grand Falls-Windsor/Green Bay South. cbc.ca.
  2. "Newfoundland Liberal resigns for new leader". The Globe and Mail, June 27, 1987. p. A4.
  3. Cuff, Robert H; Baker, Melvin; Pitt, Robert DW (1990). Dictionary of Newfoundland and Labrador Biography. ISBN 0-921191-51-0.
  4. "Grand Falls-Windsor-Green Bay South". Newfoundland and Labrador Votes 2007. CBC News.


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