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

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Rhodes Scholar, politician and judge. He was born in Kamloops,

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, 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 fr ...

and Winnifred M. Davie, daughter of A. E. B. Davie. He was the youngest of 4 children.

Military career

Davie Fulton served in the Second World War with the

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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

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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 House of Commons of Canada in the

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. In 1949 he introduced legislation to criminalize the publication, distribution, and sale of

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, as the result of a murder by two

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teens that was blamed on the influence of the crime comics which the perpetrators had read. He ran for the leadership of the

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at the 1956 leadership convention, placing third behind

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. When Diefenbaker led the party to victory in the 1957 election, he appointed Fulton to Cabinet as

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. As Minister, Fulton was involved in negotiations to patriate the

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, and developed the " Fulton–Favreau formula". In 1962, he became Minister of Public Works. His cousin, Albert McPhillips, 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 Robert Stanfield and

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

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on the

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, and served until 1981. From 1986 to 1992, he served as a commissioner on the

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. In 1992, he was made an Officer of the

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. He died in Vancouver on May 22, 2000.

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