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Wilson Callan

Wilson Callan

Canadian politician


Wilson E. Callan (born October 8, 1939) is a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Bellevue in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1975 to 1979 and 1981 to 1985. He was a member of the Newfoundland Reform Liberal Party and Liberal for his first term and a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador for his second.[1]

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He was born in Norman's Cove-Long Cove.[2] Callan was first elected to the Newfoundland assembly as a Reform Liberal member. He joined the Liberals in September 1976. Callan stepped aside to allow Liberal leader Don Jamieson to run in Bellevue in the 1979 general election. After Jamieson resigned in 1981, Callan was elected in a by-election. He was elected again in 1982 and 1985. He later joined the Conservatives. Callan did not run for reelection in 1989.[3]


References

  1. "Guide Parlementaire Canadien". 1987.
  2. "Bellevue". Newfoundland and Labrador Votes 2003. CBC News.



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