James Greene (Canadian politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About James Greene (Canadian politician)
- James Joseph Louis (Jim) Greene (June 15, 1928 – November 4, 2014) was the Newfoundland and Labrador's Opposition Leader from 1960 to 1965 and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland.
- He led the party through the 1962 provincial election in which the party increased its seat total in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 3 to 7, more than doubling them, and its share of the popular vote from 25% to 36%.
- The result was not enough to prevent the Liberal government of Joey Smallwood from returning to power with a substantial majority government.The son of Joseph Michael Greene and Marie Eugenie Williams, he was born in St.
- John's and was educated at Saint Bonaventure's College, at the University of Notre Dame and at Merton College, Oxford.
- Greene was called to the bar of England and Wales in 1953 and practised law in London for several months, returning to Newfoundland in September of that year.
- He was called to the Newfoundland bar in October 1953.
- He was a 31-year-old lawyer when he was first elected to the legislature in the riding of what was then called St.
- John's East during the 1959 provincial election by defeating incumbent James D.
- Higgins, leader of the United Newfoundland Party which had broken away from the Tories prior to the election.
- Prior to being elected, Greene was counsel to the International Woodworkers of America's Newfoundland local.
- The election also saw the defeat of Conservative leader Malcolm Mercer Hollett after Smallwood personally unseated him run in his St.
- John's West riding.Subsequent to the election, Greene replaced Hollett as party leader and leader of the opposition. In the 1962 provincial election, Greene succeeded in being personally re-elected and in increasing his party's number of seats to 7 based and increasing his party's share of the vote from 25% to 36% and in wiping out the breakaway United Newfoundland Party whose sole remaining MHA was defeated by a Tory candidate.
- However, the Tory gains were not enough to stop the Liberals from being re-elected with a commanding majority.Greene stepped down as party leader on January 14, 1966 and Noel Murphy was chosen acting leader.
- Greene did not run for the legislature in the 1966 provincial election and returned to his law practice.
- In 1967, during the federal Progressive Conservative leadership election, he supported the candidacy of E.
- Davie Fulton.He served as chair of the board of regents for Memorial University, as a director for Churchill Falls (Labrador) Corporation and as president of the Kiwanis Club of St.
- John's.On November 4, 2014, he died in St.
- John's at the age of 86.
- Greene's father Joseph served in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1928 to 1932.
- His great uncle, Daniel Joseph Greene, was Premier of Newfoundland from 1894 to 1895.
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