Background
He was born in Saint John"s and was educated at Centenary Hall.
He was born in Saint John"s and was educated at Centenary Hall.
He represented Saint John"s East in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1949 to 1956. Fogwill worked as an electrician in the Reid Newfoundland Company railway shop. He was a delegate to the convention which founded the Newfoundland Trades and Labour Council, later the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour, and served on its Saint John"s executive.
Fogwill was elected to the Newfoundland National Convention in 1946 for Saint John"s East Extern.
He supported the Responsible Government League and was opposed to confederation with Canada. Fogwill was elected to the Newfoundland assembly in 1949 and re-elected in 1951, retiring in 1956.
He ran unsuccessfully for the riding of Saint John"s Centre in 1959. Fogwill died in Saint John"s in 1974.
He was a founding member of the Saint John"s local for the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen and served as its first president