{{Short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Oliver Langdon | preceded = Roger Simmons | term_end4 = November 6, 2003 | term_start4 = February 13, 2001 | office4 = Minister of Municipal and Provincial Affairs, And Registrar General | term_start3 = July 4, 1997 | office3 = Minister of Environment and Labour | term_start1 = February 22, 1996 | term_end1 = October 9, 2007 | succeeded = Electoral district dissolved | assembly1 = Newfoundland and Labrador House of | constituency_AM1 = Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune | honorific_suffix = MHA | birth_place = Seal Cove, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland | alma_mater = Memorial University | profession = Teacher, Firefighter | succeeded1 = Tracey Perry | preceded1 = Electoral district created | term_end = February 22, 1996 | term_start = April 20, 1989 | party = Liberal (-1989, 1993-) Progressive Conservative (1989-1993) | constituency_AM = Fortune Bay-Hermitage | assembly = Newfoundland and Labrador House of | image = | term_end3 = February 13, 2001 }}
'''Oliver Langdon''' is an educator and former political figure in Newfoundland and Labrador. He represented Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1989 to 2007 as a Progressive Conservative and then Liberal member.
He was born in Seal Cove, Fortune Bay and educated at Memorial University. Langdon married Margaret Loveless. He served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Environment and Labour and as Minister of Municipal and Provincial Affairs. Langdon was a member of the town council for Point Leamington.
First elected as a Progressive Conservative in 1989, Langdon ran as a Liberal in 1993, and beat Progressive Conservative candidate and future Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Kathy Dunderdale.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/nlvotes2003/riding/015/ |title=Fortune Bay-Cape La Hune |publisher=CBC News |work=Newfoundland and Labrador Votes 2003 |year=2003 |accessdate=2010-01-12}}</ref> He resigned from provincial politics in 2007;<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=37325&sc=79 |title=A day for goodbyes |date=June 14, 2007 |last=Roberts |first=Terry |newspaper=The Telegram |accessdate=2009-01-12}}</ref> Langdon lost to Judy Foote when he sought the Liberal candidacy in the federal riding of Random–Burin–St. George's in August 2007.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.southerngazette.ca/index.cfm?sid=171512&sc=382 |title=Canadians going to polls in another federal election |date=September 16, 2008 |last=Herridge |first=Paul |newspaper=The Southern Gazette |accessdate=2010-01-12}}</ref>
== References == * {{cite book |title=Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 2005 |year=2005 |last=Batten |first=Donna |ISBN=1-4144-0141-8}} {{reflist}}
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