Frank Moores, former premier of Newfoundland and that province's second premier, has died at the age of 72.

Born 1933, Moores served as Newfoundland's second Premier from 1972 to 1979. Moores was first elected in 1968 to the House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative. In 1970, he became leader of the provincial Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador and was asked to form a government in January 1972, several months following the October 1971 election that resulted in a near tie between Joey Smallwood's Liberals and the Tories.

As Premier, Moores advocated rural development & provincial control of natural resources as well as economic development. He left politics in 1979 to re-enter business and became a lobbyist. In 1983 he was an organizer of the successful Progressive Conservative Party of Canada leadership campaign for Brian Mulroney. He served as an advisor to Mulroney while he was Prime Minister. In 1987, he became the chairman of Government Consultants International, a powerful international lobbying group. In the 1990s he was caught up in the Airbus scandal but was ultimately cleared.