Cleophas (Cle) Newhook (June 3, 1943[1] – March 2, 2018) was a Canadian theologian, author and politician in Newfoundland.
[2] He became leader by defeating MHA Gene Long by a margin of 126 votes to 105 in the party's first-ever leadership convention in 1989.
[4] In 1990, while Newhook was leader, the NDP regained a seat in the House when Jack Harris won a by-election victory in St. John's East.
The foundation organized the victims' families so that they could be represented at a public inquiry and lobbied for legislative changes to prevent future oil rig disasters[2][10][11] Newhook studied theology at the University of Oxford.
He spent five years as an Anglican priest in England, where he directed community educational and development programs in inner cities; he was chair of the British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centre.