User:Nbpolitico/Ted Flemming

Hugh John "Ted" Flemming III is the MLA-elect for the electoral district of Rothesay in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Flemming was elected to the legislature in a by-election on June 25, 2012.

Flemming graduated from the University of New Brunswick law school in 1978 and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1992. He has served on the board of directors of the New Brunswick Securities Commission and the Saint John Port Authority. He is not an actively practicing lawyer.

Flemming is from the fourth generation of the Flemming family to seek office under the Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick. His father, Hugh John Flemming, Jr., was an unsuccessful candidate for the legislature in the riding of Saint John North in the 1974 provincial election. His grandfather, Hugh John Flemming was Premier of New Brunswick and a member of John Diefenbaker's federal cabinet. His great-grandfather James Kidd Flemming was also Premier and a member of the Canadian House of Commons.