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About James A. Clift
- James Augustus Clift (December 22, 1857 – 1923) was a lawyer, insurance agent and political figure in Newfoundland.
- He represented Port de Grave from 1889 to 1893 and Twillingate from 1900 to 1919 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a Liberal. He was born in St.
- John's, the son of Theodore Clift, and was educated there and at the Windsor Academy in Nova Scotia.
- Clift studied law with Prescott Emerson and A.
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- Hayward and was called to the Newfoundland bar in 1883.
- He was an agent for the Equitable Life Assurance Company and the General Fire Assurance Company of London.
- Clift served in the Newfoundland Executive Council as Minister of Mines and Agriculture from 1904 to 1909 and from 1918 to 1919.
- He was a District Grand Master in the Freemasons.
- He was named King's Counsel in 1903. In 1891, Clift married Agnes Paterson.
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