Davie Fulton

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Minister of Citizenship and Immigration
Acting
June 21, 1957 – May 11, 1958
Prime MinisterJohn Diefenbaker
Preceded byJack Pickersgill
Succeeded byEllen Fairclough
Member of Parliament
for Kamloops
In office
November 8, 1965 – June 24, 1968
Preceded byCharles Willoughby
Succeeded byRiding dissolved
In office
June 11, 1945 – April 7, 1963
Preceded byThomas O'Neill
Succeeded byCharles Willoughby
Personal details
Born
Edmund Davie Fulton

(1916-03-10)March 10, 1916
Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
DiedMay 22, 2000(2000-05-22) (aged 84)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Political partyProgressive Conservative
Spouse
Patricia Mary MacRae
​
​
(m. 1946)​
Children3
Parent(s)
A. E. B. Davie (maternal grandfather)
Theodore Davie (granduncle)
Profession

Edmund Davie Fulton

A. E. B. Davie. He was the youngest of 4 children.[2]

Military career

Davie Fulton served in the Second World War with the

Moose Squadron in honour of its commander. In 1944 the Kamloops airport was dedicated as Fulton Field.[3]

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.[4]

He ran for the leadership of the

1956 leadership convention, placing third behind John Diefenbaker
.

When Diefenbaker led the party to victory in 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

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.[5]

Election results

1945 Canadian federal election: 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
1949 Canadian federal election: 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
1953 Canadian federal election: 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
1957 Canadian federal election: 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
1958 Canadian federal election: 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
1962 Canadian federal election: 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.
1963 British Columbia general election: 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
1965 Canadian federal election: 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
1968 Canadian federal election: 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.[6]

References

  1. ^ Williams, Patricia (13 February 2008). "Davie Fulton". The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  2. ^ "Names - B3". Archived from the original on 2009-11-02. Retrieved 2009-12-28.
  3. ^ "Names - B4". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
  4. ISBN 9780312428235
    .
  5. ^ Downey, Donn (24 May 2000). "Former federal cabinet minister dead at 84". The Globe and Mail.
  6. ^ "E. Davie Fulton fonds, Library and Archives Canada". Retrieved 2020-09-03.

External links

Political offices
Preceded by
Minister of Justice

1957–1962 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration

1957–1958 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Public Works
1962–1963 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by
Leader of the BC Conservative Party

1963–1965 		Succeeded by
John Anthony St. Etienne DeWolf


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