Lloyd Matthews is a former politician in

Newfoundland Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...

. He represented St. John's North in the

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from 1993 to 2003. He was born in

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. Matthews married Jean Tremblett. He worked as an auditor for

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. In 1993, he founded the Matthews Group of Companies. Matthews was a member of the Board of Trade. He was founding chair of the

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in Newfoundland and St. John's Clean and Beautiful. Matthews was first elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1993. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Health, as Minister of Works, services and Transportation, as Minister of Municipal and Provincial Affairs, as Minister of Finance and as Minister of Mines and Energy. In February 2003, he announced that he would not be running for reelection later that year.

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