Davie Fulton | |
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| Minister of Public Works | |
| In office August 9, 1962 – April 21, 1963 | |
| Prime Minister | John Diefenbaker |
| Preceded by | Howard Charles Green (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Jean-Paul Deschatelets |
| Minister of Justice Attorney General of Canada | |
| In office June 21, 1957 – August 8, 1962 | |
| Prime Minister | John Diefenbaker |
| Preceded by | Stuart Garson |
| Succeeded by | Donald Fleming |
| Minister of Citizenship and Immigration | |
| Acting June 21, 1957 – May 11, 1958 | |
| Prime Minister | John Diefenbaker |
| Preceded by | Jack Pickersgill |
| Succeeded by | Ellen Fairclough |
| Member of Parliament forKamloops | |
| In office November 8, 1965 – June 24, 1968 | |
| Preceded by | Charles Willoughby |
| Succeeded by | Riding dissolved |
| In office June 11, 1945 – April 7, 1963 | |
| Preceded by | Thomas O'Neill |
| Succeeded by | Charles Willoughby |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Edmund Davie Fulton (1916-03-10)March 10, 1916 Kamloops,British Columbia, Canada |
| Died | May 22, 2000(2000-05-22) (aged 84) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Party | Progressive Conservative |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Parent(s) | Frederick John Fulton Winnifred Mary Davie |
| Relatives | A. E. B. Davie (maternal grandfather) Theodore Davie (granduncle) |
| Profession | |
Edmund Davie FultonPC OC QC (March 10, 1916 – May 22, 2000) was aCanadianRhodes Scholar, politician and judge. He was born inKamloops,British Columbia,[1] the son of politician/lawyerFrederick John Fulton and Winnifred M. Davie, daughter ofA. E. B. Davie. He was the youngest of 4 children.[2]
Davie Fulton served in the Second World War with theCanadian Army overseas as Platoon and Company Commander withSeaforth Highlanders of Canada, and as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General with the1st Canadian Infantry Division in the Italian and Northwestern Europe campaigns. His brother John "Moose" Fulton distinguished himself in theRoyal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He went missing in action in late 1942, and in 1943 Kamloops adopted theMoose Squadron in honour of its commander. In 1944 the Kamloops airport was dedicated as Fulton Field.[3]
He was brought home from the war by the Conservative Party and won a seat by 100 votes in theHouse of Commons of Canada in the1945 general election.
In 1949, he introduced legislation to criminalize the publication, distribution, and sale ofcrime comics, as the result of a murder by twoYukon teens that was blamed on the influence of the crime comics which the perpetrators had read.[4] Crime comics remained prohibited in Canada until 2018, when Bill C-51 became law.[5]
He ran for the leadership of theProgressive Conservative Party of Canada at the1956 leadership convention, placing third behindJohn Diefenbaker.
When Diefenbaker led the party to victory in the1957 election, he appointed Fulton toCabinet asMinister of Justice. As Minister, Fulton was involved in negotiations to patriate theCanadian Constitution, and developed the "Fulton–Favreau formula". In 1962, he became Minister of Public Works. His cousin,Albert McPhillips, was Parliamentary Secretary to theMinister of Fisheries around this time.
He resigned from Cabinet in 1963, when he decided to leave federal politics and take the leadership of theBritish 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 the1965 election.
Fulton stood as a candidate at the1967 federal PC leadership convention, and placed third behindRobert Stanfield andDufferin Roblin.
After losing his seat in the1968 election, he retired from politics and returned to the law. In 1973, he became ajustice on theBritish Columbia Supreme Court, and served until 1981, resigning as a result of impaired driving conviction.
Fulton tenure ended in 1982 with his resignation to then Prime Minister,Jean Chretien. Issue relating to charges of drunk driving, as well as stress resulting from false allegation of his engaging in prostitution, known as the Wendy King Case caused him to resign.[6] The ghost writer and publisher ofThe Wendy King Story, apologized in court, "saying it was a case of mistaken identity."[6] King also admitted the same in court,
This libel action has its origin in the fact that I sincerely believed that the plaintiff, Justice E. Davie Fulton, was on one occasion a client of mine in my professional capacity as a prostitute,' King's statement read.As a result of evidence recently disclosed to me, I now realize that I was in error in believing that I had ever met Justice Fulton or that I had associated with him in any way.[7]
Fulton stated that stress from these false allegation had caused his drinking,
Because of the strain and emotional turmoil of this libel action, my problem with alcohol has come back in concentrated form.[8]
In February 1979, as a result drinking and driving incident and an automobile accident, Fulton had his license suspended.[9] During the stop, Fulton "admitted he had used 'intemperate language',"[10] telling the police to "Go to hell."[11] He was involved in a hit-and-run incident, also in February 1979, where the "owner of the vehicle involved told police he had followed the hit-and-run car...to the judge's house."[9] In March 1979, Fulton pled guilty to drinking and driving charges.[12]
The 1981 drinking-and-driving incident was a second offence; he received a $700 fine and a mandatory 14 days in jail.[13][14] He was also disbarred from the B.C. Law Society.[15]
From 1986 to 1992, Fulton served as a commissioner on theInternational Joint Commission. In 1992, he was made an Officer of theOrder of Canada.
He died in Vancouver on May 22, 2000.[16]
| 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 Conservativegain fromLiberal | 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 Conservativehold | 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 Conservativehold | 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 Conservativehold | 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 Conservativehold | 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 Conservativehold | 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 Conservativehold | 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 fromCariboo andKamloops, which elected a Social Credit and a Progressive Conservative, respectively, in the last election.Davie Fulton was the incumbent from Kamloops. | ||||||||
There is a Davie Fultonfonds atLibrary and Archives Canada.[17]
| 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 |
