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Hugh Joseph Shea (1932 – 1993) was a businessperson and politician in
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. He represented St. John's South in the
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from 1971 to 1972. The son of William Shea and Ellen Cleary, he was born in St. John's and was educated there. Shea worked for the Canadian government in
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and in
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. He then opened a corner store in Kilbride. He married Rose-Marie Power. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the leadership of the provincial Progressive Conservative party in 1970. He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly as a Progressive Conservative in 1971. After he was not named to
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' cabinet in 1972, he sat as an independent and then as a
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. Shea was defeated when he ran for a
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seat later that year. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the
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seat in the Canadian House of Commons in 1972, running as an independent. He ran unsuccessfully as a Liberal in St. John's East in 1985 and in St. John's Centre. In 1976, Shea published ''Shea's Newfoundland seduced''. He operated a convenience store in St. John's during the 1970s and then ran a takeout restaurant, retiring in 1990. Comedian
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's first job was peeling potatoes at Shea's takeout restaurant, known as Hamburger Hell.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shea, Hugh 1932 births 1993 deaths Politicians from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador MHAs Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador MHAs 20th-century members of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly