Bud Boyce

Joseph Russell (Bud) Boyce (March 20, 1924 in Saint John,

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– March 16, 1984) was a

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, Canada. He was a member of the

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from 1969 to 1981, and served in the

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. Initially a

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, Boyce became a Progressive in 1981. Boyce grew up in

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, was educated at the

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from 1941 to 1945. He later served as a school councillor at St. John's Technical High School. He supported Sidney Green for the leadership of the provincial NDP in 1968 and 1969. He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1969, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative

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by almost 1,000 votes in the riding of

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under the slogan Bud Boyce, your choice. He was not appointed to cabinet in the legislative term which followed, although he served as Deputy

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for a few months in 1971. In the

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, he was re-elected by an increased majority over Tory candidate Robert Wilson. On June 26, 1974, Boyce entered cabinet as the Minister responsible for Corrections and Rehabilitations. He held this position until the Schreyer government was defeated in the 1977 election. Boyce was re-elected in the 1977 election, defeating Tory candidate Philip S. Lee with a reduced majority. In 1979, he supported Sidney Green's unsuccessful bid to become interim leader of the provincial NDP. On March 3, 1981, Boyce announced that he was joining Green's new Progressive Party of Manitoba, along with fellow New Democratic MLA

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. He ran for re-election in the redistributed riding of Fort Rouge in the 1981 election, but fared poorly, receiving only 243 votes. After being defeated, Boyce worked as a consultant. He died at home in

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in 1984, before the next election was held. In 1955 Bud Boyce abandoned a wife and 3 small children in Antioch California. He left to move back to Canada and never gave his family any support and Betty was left to raise 3 children by herself with no support financially or physically. {{DEFAULTSORT:Boyce, Bud New Democratic Party of Manitoba MLAs 1924 births 1984 deaths Progressive Party of Manitoba (1981–1995) politicians Politicians from Saint John, New Brunswick Politicians from Winnipeg Members of the Executive Council of Manitoba Betty Boyce mother of 3 abandoned children in Antioch, CA in 1955}