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Monarch
  
Name
  
Frank Moores

Preceded by
  
Role
  
Political leader


Preceded by
  
Spouse
  
Janis Johnson (m. 1973)

Preceded by
  
New District

Succeeded by
  
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Born
  
February 18, 1933Carbonear, Newfoundland (
1933-02-18
)

Political party
  
Other politicalaffiliations
  
Died
  
July 10, 2005, Perth, Canada

Party
  
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada

Lieutenant governor
  
Ewart John Arlington Harnum, Gordon Arnaud Winter

Frank Duff Moores (February 18, 1933 – July 10, 2005) served as the second Premier of Newfoundland. He served as leader of the Progressive Conservatives from 1972 until his retirement in 1979.

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Early life

Born in Carbonear, Newfoundland, he was educated at St. Andrew's College in Aurora, Ontario. Moores then briefly attended Boston University, but left after two months to return to Newfoundland, where he worked in a fish plant. His father was a wealthy businessman in that industry.

Politics

Moores was first elected in 1968 to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative. In 1970, he became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland, and was asked to form a government in January 1972, several months following the October 1971 election that resulted in a near tie between Joey Smallwood's Liberals and the Tories.

As Premier, Moores advocated rural development and provincial control of natural resources as well as economic development.

After politics

He left politics in 1979 to re-enter business and became a lobbyist. In 1983, he was an organizer of the successful Progressive Conservative Party leadership campaign for Brian Mulroney. He served as an adviser to Mulroney while he was Prime Minister of Canada, and was appointed to the Board of Air Canada, then a Crown Corporation. At the time, he was also working for Government Consultants International (GCI), a powerful Ottawa-based international lobbying firm, which had as clients at the time the airline firms Wardair and Nordair, which were competitors of Air Canada. Over accusations of conflict of interest, GCI then gave up Wardair and Nordair as clients. He resigned his Air Canada directorship shortly after GCI took on the Airbus file.

In 1987, he became the chairman of GCI. In the 1990s, he regained prominence through his alleged role in the Airbus affair.

On July 10, 2005, Moores died of liver cancer in Perth, Ontario.

In November 2007, in the wake of new revelations about the Airbus affair by Karlheinz Schreiber, The Globe and Mail published evidence indicating that Moores had written a letter about the Airbus deal to Franz Josef Strauss, chairman of Airbus Industrie. Until his death Moores denied having any involvement in the affair.

References

Frank Moores Wikipedia


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