Frederick Carter
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Sir Frederick Bowker Terrington Carter was a Newfoundlander lawyer and politician who served as Premier of Newfoundland from 1865 to 1870 and from 1874 to 1878.
Carter in 1869
Charles Fox Bennett
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Charles James Fox Bennett was a merchant and politician who successfully fought attempts to take Newfoundland into Canadian Confederation. Bennett was a successful businessman and one of the colony's
Frederick Carter
…conference. However, the Conservatives were defeated on the Confederation issue in the November 1869 election by the Anti-Confederation Party led by Charles Fox Bennett. Even though Newfoundland did not join the confederation until 1949, Carter is considered one of the Fathers of Confederation. Carter became Premier a…
Charles Fox Bennett