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Frank Lewis (broadcaster)

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Monarch
  
Elizabeth II

Governor General
  
David Johnston


Spouse(s)
  
Dorothy

Name
  
Frank Lewis

Premier
  
Robert Ghiz Wade MacLauchlan

Preceded by
  
Barbara Oliver Hagerman

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Harry Frank Lewis, (born 1939) is a Canadian broadcaster and politician who serves as the Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, as viceregal representative of Queen Elizabeth II of Canada in the Province of Prince Edward Island. He has held the position since August 15, 2011, and is set to be succeeded by Antoinette Perry who was appointed on September 14, 2017.

Born in 1939 in York, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Lewis started working at CFCY-FM in Charlottetown in 1966 and retired in 2004 when he was a Vice President and General Manager. Since his retirement, he worked as a senior advisor for Newcap Radio. He was appointed the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island on July 28, 2011 by Governor General of Canada David Lloyd Johnston on the Constitutional advice of Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper. He was sworn in by David Jenkins, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Prince Edward Island, on August 15, 2011 at Province House. As Lieutenant Governor, Lewis is Chancellor of the Order of Prince Edward Island.

In 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

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