Wilfred Bishop (1917 – March 1, 2004) was a Canadian politician,[1] who was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1952 to 1987.
[1] Originally from Chipman, New Brunswick, Bishop ran a logging and sawmill business in Queens County prior to his election to the legislature.
[1] He served in the Executive Council of New Brunswick as Minister of Natural Resources,[1] Minister of Transportation[2] and President of the Executive Council[3] in the government of Richard Hatfield.
Following the 1987 provincial election, in which the opposition Liberals won every seat in the legislature and left the Conservatives seatless, Bishop was a candidate for the interim leadership of the party,[4] but lost to Malcolm MacLeod.
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