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Davie Fulton
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Minister of Public Works
In office
August 9, 1962 – April 21, 1963
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
Preceded by Howard Charles Green (acting)
Succeeded by Jean-Paul Deschatelets
Minister of Justice
Attorney General of Canada
In office
June 21, 1957 – August 8, 1962
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
Preceded by Stuart Garson
Succeeded by Donald Fleming
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Acting
June 21, 1957 – May 11, 1958
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker
Preceded by Jack Pickersgill
Succeeded by Ellen Fairclough
Member of Parliament
for Kamloops
In office
November 8, 1965 – June 24, 1968
Preceded by Charles Willoughby
Succeeded by Riding dissolved
In office
June 11, 1945 – April 7, 1963
Preceded by Thomas O'Neill
Succeeded by Charles Willoughby
Personal details
Born
Edmund Davie Fulton

(1916-03-10)March 10, 1916
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
Died May 22, 2000(2000-05-22) (aged 84)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Political party Progressive Conservative
Spouse
Patricia Mary MacRae
(m. 1946)
Children 3
Parents Frederick John Fulton
Winnifred Mary Davie
Relatives A. E. B. Davie (maternal grandfather)
Theodore Davie (granduncle)
Profession

Edmund Davie Fulton PC OC QC (March 10, 1916 – May 22, 2000) was a Canadian Rhodes Scholar, politician and judge. He was born in Kamloops, British Columbia, the son of politician/lawyer Frederick John Fulton and Winnifred M. Davie, daughter of A. E. B. Davie. He was the youngest of 4 children.

Military career

Davie Fulton served in the Second World War with the Canadian Army overseas as Platoon and Company Commander with Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, and as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General with the 1st Canadian Infantry Division in the Italian and Northwestern Europe campaigns. His brother John "Moose" Fulton distinguished himself in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He went missing in action in late 1942, and in 1943 Kamloops adopted the Moose Squadron in honour of its commander. In 1944 the Kamloops airport was dedicated as Fulton Field.

Political career

He was brought home from the war by the Conservative Party and won a seat by 100 votes in the House of Commons of Canada in the 1945 general election.

In 1949 he introduced legislation to criminalize the publication, distribution, and sale of crime comics, as the result of a murder by two Yukon teens that was blamed on the influence of the crime comics which the perpetrators had read.

He ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada at the 1956 leadership convention, placing third behind John Diefenbaker.

When Diefenbaker led the party to victory in the 1957 election, he appointed Fulton to Cabinet as Minister of Justice. As Minister, Fulton was involved in negotiations to patriate the Canadian Constitution, and developed the "Fulton–Favreau formula". In 1962, he became Minister of Public Works. His cousin, Albert McPhillips, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries around this time.

He resigned from Cabinet in 1963, when he decided to leave federal politics and take the leadership of the British Columbia Progressive Conservative Party. His efforts to revive the provincial Tories in BC were a failure, and he returned to the House of Commons in the 1965 election.

Fulton stood as a candidate at the 1967 federal PC leadership convention, and placed third behind Robert Stanfield and Dufferin Roblin.

After losing his seat in the 1968 election, he retired from politics and returned to the law. In 1973, he became a justice on the British Columbia Supreme Court, and served until 1981. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a commissioner on the International Joint Commission.

In 1992, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He died in Vancouver on May 22, 2000.

Election results

Canadian federal election, 1945: Kamloops
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Davie Fulton 4,401 33.09 +1.19
Liberal Thomas James O'Neill 4,229 31.80 -9.99
Co-operative Commonwealth Francis James McKenzie 4,003 30.10 +3.79
Labor–Progressive John Henry Codd 666 5.01
Total valid votes 13,299 100.0  
Progressive Conservative gain from Liberal Swing +5.59


Canadian federal election, 1949: Kamloops
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Davie Fulton 7,682 40.07 +6.98
Liberal Thomas James O'Neill 6,399 33.38 +1.58
Co-operative Commonwealth George Victor Larson 5,091 26.55 -3.55
Total valid votes 19,172 100.0  
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +2.70


Canadian federal election, 1953: Kamloops
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Davie Fulton 7,578 46.69 +5.92
Social Credit Clarence Aubrey Wright 3,780 23.29
Liberal Kenneth Durward Houghton 2,731 16.83 -16.55
Co-operative Commonwealth Austin Kenneth Greenway 2,140 13.19 -13.36
Total valid votes 16,229 100.0  
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -8.68


Canadian federal election, 1957: Kamloops
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Davie Fulton 10,029 47.24 +0.55
Social Credit Walter James Smith 5,858 27.59 +4.30
Liberal Arnold McIntyre Affleck 3,383 15.94 -0.89
Co-operative Commonwealth Austin Kenneth Greenway 1,959 9.23 -3.96
Total valid votes 21,229 100.0  
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -1.88


Canadian federal election, 1958: Kamloops
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Davie Fulton 13,858 63.83 +16.59
Liberal Arnold McIntyre Affleck 2,868 13.21 -2.73
Co-operative Commonwealth Austin Kenneth Greenway 2,777 12.79 +3.56
Social Credit Earl Victor Roy Merrick 2,390 11.01 -16.58
Total valid votes 21,893 100.0  
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +9.66


Canadian federal election, 1962: Kamloops
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Davie Fulton 11,312 43.13 -20.70
Liberal Jarl Whist 5,789 22.07 +8.86
New Democratic Walter D. Inglis 4,733 18.05 +5.26
Social Credit Clarence Aubrey Wright 4,393 16.75 +5.74
Total valid votes 26,227 100.0  
Progressive Conservative hold Swing -14.78
Change for the New Democrats is based on the Co-operative Commonwealth.
British Columbia general election, 1963: Kamloops
Party Candidate Votes %
Social Credit Philip Arthur Gaglardi 5,669 47.17%
Progressive Conservative Edmund Davie Fulton 4,473 37.22%
New Democratic Lance Randle 1,297 10.79%
Liberal Henry Maxwell Smith 580 4.83%
Total valid votes 12,019 100.00%
Total rejected ballots 71
Canadian federal election, 1965: Kamloops
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Progressive Conservative Davie Fulton 11,731 37.39 +7.94
New Democratic Vernor Wilfred Jones 7,132 22.73 -0.75
Liberal Albert John Edward Chilton 6,757 21.54 -7.07
Social Credit Thomas Daly Sills 5,756 18.35 -0.11
Total valid votes 31,376 100.0  
Progressive Conservative hold Swing +4.34


Canadian federal election, 1968: Kamloops—Cariboo
Party Candidate Votes %
Liberal Leonard Stephen Marchand 13,000 40.48
Progressive Conservative Edmund Davie Fulton 9,704 30.22
New Democratic Vernor Wilfred Jones 7,566 23.56
Social Credit Peter Robert Gook 1,842 5.74
Total valid votes 32,112 100.0  
This riding was created from Cariboo and Kamloops, which elected a Social Credit and a Progressive Conservative, respectively, in the last election. Davie Fulton was the incumbent from Kamloops.

Archives

There is a Davie Fulton fonds at Library and Archives Canada.

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