Smallwood, Joseph Roberts
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▪ Canadian politician
born December 24, 1900, Gambo, Newfoundland [Canada]
died December 17, 1991, St. Johns, Nfd., Can.
Canadian politician who vigorously campaigned for Newfoundland (
Newfoundland and Labrador)'s admission into Canada and who, one day after Newfoundland became the nation's 10th province (March 31, 1949), became its premier (1949–71).
From 1920 to 1925 Smallwood worked in New York City for a left-wing daily before returning to Newfoundland and serving as a union organizer and a radio broadcaster and unsuccessfully running for office in the 1932 election. Elected a member of the 1946 convention that was established to decide Newfoundland's future, Smallwood favoured confederation with Canada. After proconfederation forces won the 1948 vote by 2 percent, he was appointed premier of an interim Newfoundland government on April 1, 1949, and won the first provincial election in May 1949. He led the provincial Liberal Party to power in the elections of 1951, 1956, 1959, 1962, and 1966 before being defeated in 1971. Smallwood resigned as party head in 1972. He subsequently made some attempts to regain power but finally retired in 1977.
Smallwood was the editor of the multivolume The Book of Newfoundland (1937–75) and author of a memoir, I Chose Canada (1973).
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