Philip Fudge

Philip Thomas Fudge (April 28, 1884[1] – August 18, 1938) was an educator, businessman, civil servant and politician in Newfoundland. He represented Hermitage in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1928 to 1932 as a Liberal.[2]

The son of Philip Fudge and Mary Petite, he was born in Pass Island, Fortune Bay and was educated there, in St. John's and in Boston.[3] Fudge taught school for several years and then, in 1918, opened a general store and fishery business at Pass Island. In 1932, Fudge left the Liberal party and joined the opposition when the government proposed an increase in tariffs and a decrease in war pensions. He was named a customs inspector in 1932 and became chief inspector of fisheries in 1934.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Members of the Legislature, 1932-1933" (PDF). Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Smallwood, Joseph R (1984). Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador v. 2. pp. 932–33. ISBN 0-920508-16-2.
  3. ↑ Who's Who in and from Newfoundland 1930. p. 239.