Charles Fox Bennett

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title: Charles Fox Bennett
text: 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 richest residents with interests in the fisheries, distillery and brewery industry and shipbuilding. His brother Thomas Bennett, a magistrate and member of Newfoundland's first House of Assembly, was a partner in the business. Bennett became involved in politics in the 1840s as a leader of the colon
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description: Merchant and politician (1793–1883)
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date created: 2004-03-13T06:50:01Z
date modified: 2024-09-02T04:48:42Z
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