Graham Flight | |
Office1: | MHA for Windsor-Buchans |
Term Start1: | 1975 |
Term End1: | 1982 |
Office2: | MHA for Windsor-Buchans |
Term Start2: | 1985 |
Term End2: | 1987 |
Successor2: | Clyde Wells |
Office3: | MHA for Windsor-Buchans |
Term Start3: | 1989 |
Term End3: | 1996 |
Predecessor3: | Clyde Wells |
Successor3: | riding dissolved |
Office4: | MHA for Windsor-Springdale |
Term Start4: | 1996 |
Term End4: | 1999 |
Predecessor4: | new district |
Successor4: | Ray Hunter |
Graham Ralph Flight (born 1936) is a former Canadian politician, who represented the districts of Windsor-Buchans and Windsor-Springdale in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.[1] [2]
Flight was born at Cottle's Island and was raised in Buchans. He was a teacher and also served as chair of the board of trustees for Buchans.
He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly as a member of the Liberal Party in 1975. Flight was reelected in 1979, defeated in 1982 and was elected again in 1985.[3] He resigned his seat to allow Clyde Wells to run for a seat in the assembly in a 1987 by-election. He was reelected in 1989. Flight served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Forestry and Agriculture.[4]