A. Wesley Stuart
Politician
1902 – 1984
Who was A. Wesley Stuart?
Andrew Wesley Stuart was a Canadian commercial fisherman and politician from the Province of New Brunswick.
Known by Wesley, he was born at Deer Island, New Brunswick, the son of Andrew Holmes Stuart and Laura Gertrude Thompson. Raised in a place where fishing was a major part of the economy, in addition to fishing for a living, he worked as a government fishing industry inspector.
In the 1945 Canadian federal election, Stuart was elected as the Liberal Party's candidate for the riding of Charlotte. He was reelected in 1949, 1953, and again in 1957.
Wesley Stuart lived on the bank of the St. Croix River and as was common for residents, he frequently travelled across the border to Maine. A proponent of free trade between Canada and the United States, in 1951 Stuart received much publicly in both countries for his statements in the Canadian House of Commons on cross-border smuggling. Time magazine reported that he declared he had "been a smuggler all his lifeāand intended to keep on being one," adding that he "never came through [the border] in my lifetime that I did not smuggle something." Stuart's straight talk met with wide approval by his constituents and in the ensuing federal election, he won his third term in office with the largest majority of his political career.
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- Born
- Feb 11, 1902
Deer Island - Nationality
- Canada
- Lived in
- St. Andrews
- Died
- 1984
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on July 23, 2013
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