Clyde Wells
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Clyde Wells QC ONL |
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| 5th Premier of Newfoundland | |
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In office May 5, 1989 – January 26, 1996 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Lieutenant Governor |
James A. McGrath Frederick Russell |
| Preceded by | Thomas Rideout |
| Succeeded by | Brian Tobin |
| MHA for Humber East | |
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In office September 8, 1966 – October 28, 1971 |
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| Preceded by | Noel Murphy |
| Succeeded by | Tom Farrell |
| MHA for Windsor-Buchans | |
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In office December 17, 1987 – April 20, 1989 |
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| Preceded by | Graham Flight |
| Succeeded by | Graham Flight |
| MHA for Bay of Islands | |
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In office April 20, 1989 – February 22, 1996 |
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| Preceded by | Eddie Joyce |
| Succeeded by | Brian Tobin |
| Personal details | |
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Clyde Kirby Wells November 9, 1937 Buchans Junction, Newfoundland |
| Political party | Liberal |
Clyde Kirby Wells, QC (born November 9, 1937) was the fifth Premier of Newfoundland from 1989 to 1996, and subsequently Chief Justice of Newfoundland and Labrador, sitting on the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador (Court of Appeal) from 1998 to 2009.
Born in Buchans Junction, Newfoundland, Wells graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland with a BA in Political Science in 1959 and Dalhousie Law School with a LL.B in 1962.
Wells entered the cabinet of Joey Smallwood in August 1966 and was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly for the district of Humber East in the 1966 general election as a member of the Liberal Party.
Wells and John Crosbie resigned from cabinet on May 14, 1968 over concerns about financing of the Come by Chance oil refinery project.
Wells left politics in 1971 and resumed his legal practice full-time.
While in private practice, Wells was a member of the Canadian Bar Association. In 1977, in the aftermath of the election of the separatist Parti Québécois government in 1976, Wells was asked to sit on the CBA Committee on the Constitution. The mandate of the Committee was to study and make recommendations on the Constitution of Canada. The members of the Committee were drawn from each province of Canada, and included two future provincial premiers (Wells and joe Ghiz), a future Supreme Court of Canada justice, two future provincial chief justices, and a future Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations. The Committee presented its report to the CBA at the next annual meeting, in 1978. The Committee made wide-ranging recommendations for constitutional change, including a completely new constitution, abolishing the monarchy, changing the Senate, entrenching language rights and a bill of rights, and changing the balance of powers between the federal government and the provinces.
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