Rex Gibbons
Canadian geologist and politician
About Rex Gibbons
Born 1946.
Rex Vincent Gibbons (born 1946) is a geologist, educator and former politician in Newfoundland. He represented St. John's West in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1989 to 1997.
He was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1989 and was reelected in 1993 and 1996. Gibbons served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Mines and Energy and as Minister of Natural Resources. He resigned his seat in April 1997 to run for the St. John's West seat in the Canadian House of Commons but came in a close second to Progressive Conservative Charlie Power. He ran in the 2007 provincial election in St. John's South but lost by a wide margin.
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Who is Rex Gibbons?
Canadian geologist and politician
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Rex Gibbons was born in 1946 in Lumsden.
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