{{Short description|Newfoundland politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = William Halfyard | image = William Wesley Halfyard.png | alt = | caption = | constituency_AM1 = Trinity North | alongside1 = | assembly1 = Newfoundland House of | majority1 = | term_start1 = {{start date|1928|10|29}} | term_end1 = {{end date|1932|06|11}} | predecessor1 = ''District established'' | successor1 = John G. Stone | constituency_AM2 = Trinity Bay | alongside2 = <br>John Guppy (1919–23)<br>Archibald Targett (1919–23)<br>Richard Hibbs (1923–24)<br>Isaac Randell (1923–28)<br>Edwin Godden (1924–28) | assembly2 = Newfoundland House of | majority2 = | term_start2 = {{start date|1919|11|03}} | term_end2 = {{end date|1928|10|29}} | predecessor2 = John G. Stone<br>William F. Lloyd | successor2 = ''District abolished'' | constituency_AM3 = Fogo | alongside3 = | assembly3 = Newfoundland House of | majority3 = | term_start3 = {{start date|1913|10|30}} | term_end3 = {{end date|1919|11|03}} | predecessor3 = Henry Earle | successor3 = Richard Hibbs | birth_name = William Wesley Halfyard | birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|10|16}} | birth_place = Ochre Pit Cove, Newfoundland Colony | death_date = {{Death date and age|1944|12|31|1869|10|16}} | death_place = St. John's, Newfoundland | resting_place = | occupation = Educator | spouse = {{Marriage|Margaret Mary Diamond|1909}} | children = | awards = | education = | party = Fishermen's Protective Union }}
'''William Wesley Halfyard''' (October 16, 1869<ref name="baker">{{cite web |url=http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~melbaker/williamhalfyard.html |title=William Wesley Halfyard |work=Newfoundland Quarterly |date=Spring–Summer 2000 |last=Baker |first=Melvin |accessdate=2009-11-14}}</ref> – December 31, 1944) was an educator and political figure in the Colony of Newfoundland. He represented Fogo from 1913 to 1919, Trinity Bay from 1919 to 1928 and Trinity North from 1928 to 1932 in the Newfoundland House of Academy.<ref name="smallwood">{{cite book |url=http://collections.mun.ca/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/cns_enl&CISOPTR=1504&CISOSHOW=1170 |title=Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador |last=Smallwood |first=Joseph R |authorlink=Joey Smallwood |year=1984 |volume=v. 2 |page=779 |ISBN=0-9693422-2-5 |accessdate=2009-11-14}}</ref>
He was born in Ochre Pit Cove, Conception Bay, the son of William Halfyard and Anne Carnell. Halfyard was educated in Ochre Pit Cove and St. John's. He taught school for several years, later becoming principal of the Methodist school in Catalina, where he became involved with the Fishermen's Protective Union. Halfyard served in the Newfoundland Executive Council as Minister of Agriculture and Mines from 1917 to 1919, as Minister of Posts and Telegraphs from 1919 to 1923 and again from 1928 to 1932, as Minister of Marine and Fisheries in 1923 and as Colonial Secretary from 1923 to 1924. After he retired from politics in 1932, he was named Sheriff of Newfoundland.<ref name="smallwood"/>
Halfyard also served as vice-president of the Union Trading Company, as a member of the board of governors for St. John's General Hospital and as a director of the Government Savings Bank.<ref name="smallwood"/> In 1909, he married Margaret Mary Diamond. He died at home in St. John's at the age of 75.<ref name="baker"/>
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