William Augustus Oldford (born 1925) is a Canadian former social worker, magistrate and politician in

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. He represented

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from 1971 to 1972 as a Liberal. The son of Augustus Oldford and Hilda Rose, he was born in Burnside and was educated there and at

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. He taught school for four years and then worked as a welfare officer at Jackson's Arm from 1951 to 1958. He then served as a magistrate until 1971, when he stepped down from the bench to enter provincial politics. He served in the Newfoundland cabinet as a

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and as Minister of Supply and Services. Oldford resigned his seat in the assembly in January 1972, which gave the Progressive Conservative party a majority of seats. He was named a magistrate in March 1972 and served in Grand Falls and Wabush-Labrador City. He was a named a provincial court judge in Springdale in 1977, retiring from the bench in 1990. Oldford married Mabel Caines.

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