Earle Rafuse | |
Birth Date: | 16 October 1930 |
Birth Place: | Middleton, Nova Scotia |
Death Place: | Nictaux, Nova Scotia |
Office1: | MLA for Annapolis |
Term Start1: | 1993 |
Term End1: | 1998 |
Predecessor1: | new district |
Successor1: | Laurie Montgomery |
Office2: | MLA for Annapolis East |
Term Start2: | 1988 |
Term End2: | 1993 |
Predecessor2: | Gerry Sheehy |
Successor2: | riding dissolved |
Party: | Liberal |
Residence: | Port George, Nova Scotia |
Occupation: | wholesaler |
Children: | one daughter |
Earle Albert Rafuse (October 16, 1930 – January 17, 1998) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral districts of Annapolis East and Annapolis in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1988 to 1998. He was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party.
Rafuse was born in Middleton, Nova Scotia. He was a wholesale food distributor.[1] Rafuse entered provincial politics in the 1988 election, winning the Annapolis East riding.[2] In the 1993 election, he ran in the new riding of Annapolis, and defeated Progressive Conservative cabinet minister Greg Kerr by over 3,600 votes.[3] [4] He died at the age of 67 in 1998.