Frederick Gordon Bradley

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Frederick Gordon Bradley (March 21, 1886 – March 30, 1966) was a Canadian and Dominion of Newfoundland politician.

Born in St. John's, Newfoundland, the son of Norman Bradley and Evangeline Trimm, he became the principal of the Methodist School in Bonavista after finishing his education at Methodist College in 1906. Three years later, he studied law at Dalhousie University and was called to the bar in 1915. Later he started his own law practice.

In 1924, he was elected to the House of Assembly representing the electoral district of Port de Grave. A Conservative, he was a Minister without Portfolio in the cabinet of Walter Stanley Monroe until he resigned from the caucus in 1926 to site as an Independent. He was re-elected in 1928 representing the electoral district of Trinity Centre. A Liberal, he was a Minister without Portfolio and Solicitor-General in the cabinet of Richard Squires. Re-elected in 1932, as only one of two Liberals, he was the leader of the opposition. An opponent of the creation of the Commission of Government, he returned to his law practice in 1933.

He was a delegate to the Newfoundland National Convention and after the death of Cyril J. Fox he became the chairman. After Newfoundland joined Canada, he was appointed Secretary of State of Canada by Liberal Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, making him the first Canadian federal cabinet minister from Newfoundland. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons representing the riding of Bonavista—Twillingate in the 1949 federal election. In 1953, he was called to the Canadian Senate representing the senatorial division of Bonavista-Twillingate, Newfoundland and Labrador. He died in office in 1966.