Edmund Davie Fulton, (March 10, 1916 – May 22, 2000) was a Canadian

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, politician and judge. He was born in

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, British Columbia, the son of politician/lawyer

Frederick John Fulton Frederick John Fulton, KC (December 8, 1862 – July 25, 1936) was a British-born and educated Canadian lawyer and politician. He practiced law in Kamloops, British Columbia. He was a member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly fro ...

and Winnifred M. Davie, daughter of

A. E. B. Davie Alexander Edmund Batson Davie, QC, referred to as A. E. B. Davie (November 24, 1847 – August 1, 1889), was the eighth premier of British Columbia. He served in office from 1887 until his death in 1889. Called to the bar in 1873, he was the f ...

. He was the youngest of 4 children.

Military career

Davie Fulton served in the Second World War with the Canadian Army overseas as Platoon and Company Commander with

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, and as Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General with the

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in the Italian and Northwestern Europe campaigns. His brother John "Moose" Fulton distinguished himself in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He went missing in action in late 1942, and in 1943 Kamloops adopted the Moose Squadron in honour of its commander. In 1944 the Kamloops airport was dedicated as Fulton Field.

Political career

He was brought home from the war by the Conservative Party and won a seat by 100 votes in the

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in the

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. In 1949 he introduced legislation to criminalize the publication, distribution, and sale of crime comics, as the result of a murder by two Yukon teens that was blamed on the influence of the crime comics which the perpetrators had read. He ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada at the 1956 leadership convention, placing third behind John Diefenbaker. When Diefenbaker led the party to victory in the 1957 election, he appointed Fulton to

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as Minister of Justice. As Minister, Fulton was involved in negotiations to patriate the Canadian Constitution, and developed the "

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". In 1962, he became Minister of Public Works. His cousin,

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, was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries around this time. He resigned from Cabinet in 1963, when he decided to leave federal politics and take the leadership of the

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. His efforts to revive the provincial Tories in BC were a failure, and he returned to the House of Commons in the 1965 election. Fulton stood as a candidate at the 1967 federal PC leadership convention, and placed third behind

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and Dufferin Roblin. After losing his seat in the 1968 election, he retired from politics and returned to the law. In 1973, he became a justice on the

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, and served until 1981. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a commissioner on the International Joint Commission. In 1992, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He died in Vancouver on May 22, 2000.

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