He represented St. John's North in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1993 to 2003.
Matthews married Jean Tremblett.
He was founding chair of the Children's Wish Foundation of Canada in Newfoundland and St. John's Clean and Beautiful.
[1] In February 2003, he announced that he would not be running for reelection later that year.
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