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About Phillip Forsey
- Phillip Samuel Forsey (December 12, 1912 – February 9, 1965) was an educator and politician in Newfoundland.
- He represented Burin in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1949 to 1956.The son of Aaron D.
- and Maude Forsey, he was born in Grand Bank and was educated there, at Memorial University College and at Mount Allison University.
- Forsey taught school for 17 years, resigning in 1949 to devote himself to politics.
- He had been defeated in his bid to represent St.
- John's West in the National Convention in 1946.
- Forsey then campaigned on the Burin Peninsula and in Fortune Bay in support of confederation with Canada.
- He served as Minister of Home Affairs in the interim administration formed by Joey Smallwood following union with Canada.
- Forsey was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1949.
- He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Supply and later as Minister of Health.
- He resigned from cabinet in 1954.
- Forsey moved to Ottawa in 1957 and taught high school there until his death in 1965.Forsey married Doris N.
- Cobb in 1935; the couple had six children.
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