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E. Davie Fulton

Edmund Davie Fultion (1916-2000) was a Canadian politician and judge. Popularly known as E. Davie Fulton, he first won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1945 general election. Fulton ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservatives at the 1956 Tory leadership convention placing third behind John George Diefenbaker.

When Diefenbaker led the Tories to victory in the 1957 election he appointed Fulton to cabinet as Minister of Justice where he was involved in negotiations to patriate the Canadian Constitution and developed the "Fulton-Favreau formula". In 1962 he became Minister of Public Works resigning 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 Progressive Conservative leadership convention coming in third. 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 serving until 1981. From 1986 to 1992 he served as a commissioner on the International Joint Commission.

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