He represented Trinity in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1894 to 1897 and from 1900 to 1909.
[1] Gushue was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in an 1894 by-election but was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1897.
From 1900 to 1907, he served as Minister of Public Works, but was not a member of the cabinet.
After leaving politics, he was manager of the stationery department at the Reid Newfoundland Company.
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