Francis Lawrence "Bud" Jobin (August 14, 1914 – August 25, 1995) was a politician and the
18th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, Canada.
Jobin was born in
Winnipeg, and was educated at the
University of Manitoba. He moved to
Flin Flon, in the northern part of the province, in 1935. He worked for Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting as a labourer, miner and surveyor, later working in the company's purchasing department.
Jobin was first elected to the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the
1949 provincial election, as a
Liberal candidate supporting the government of
Premier
Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries. A second in command to a premier is designated as a deputy premier.
A premier will normally be a head of governm ...
Douglas Campbell. Running in
The Pas, he easily defeated independent incumbent
Beresford Richards
Beresford (Berry) Richards (August 26, 1914, Aiegnmouth, Cornwall, England – May 1982) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1943 to 1949. Elected as a candidate of the Cooperative C ...
, who opposed the governing
Liberal-
Conservative coalition.
Jobin was re-elected in the
1953 election,
easily defeating opponents from the
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF; french: Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, FCC); from 1955 the Social Democratic Party of Canada (''french: Parti social démocratique du Canada''), was a federal democratic socialism, democra ...
(CCF) and
Social Credit. On July 6, 1956, he was sworn in as
Railway Commissioner
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and
Minister of Industry and Commerce in the Campbell government.
Provincial CCF leader
Lloyd Stinson later referred to Jobin as Campbell's only "labour-oriented" minister.
Campbell's Liberals were defeated by
Dufferin Roblin's
Progressive Conservatives in the
1958 election, but Jobin was able to retain the redistributed riding of
Flin Flon. He was defeated by Progressive Conservative
Charles Witney
Charles Hubert (Buck) Witney (July 12, 1919 – May 21, 1991) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba, Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1969, ...
in the
following year's election, however, as Roblin's Tories won a majority government.
When Campbell resigned as
Manitoba Liberal Party leader in 1961, Jobin was one of four candidates who sought to replace him. He was accused by some of representing "radical" elements within the party, though he denied this, using his friendship with the arch-conservative Campbell as evidence. Jobin was a somewhat marginal candidate, however, and received only 79 votes in the
leadership convention, compared to 475 for the winner,
Gildas Molgat.
Jobin ran as a
Liberal candidate in the sprawling northern riding of
Churchill in the
federal election of 1962,
but finished a distant second against Progressive Conservative candidate
Robert Simpson. In early 1963, he lost a deferred provincial election in Churchill to Progressive Conservative
Gordon Beard
Gordon Wilbert Beard (September 27, 1921 – November 12, 1972) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Manitoba Legislature from 1963 to 1968, and an independent member from 1969 to 1972.
Born i ...
,
albeit by a relatively close margin. Jobin again lost to Simpson in the
federal election of 1965.
Jobin was elected to the Flin Flon Municipal Council in 1966.
He made another bid for the provincial legislature in the
1969 election, this time finishing third against Witney and the successful
New Democratic candidate,
Thomas Barrow.
Jobin received a Centennial Medal from the
Manitoba Historical Society in 1970, and continued his work on the municipal council. In October 1974, he was elected
mayor of Flin Flon.
On March 15, 1976, Jobin was sworn in as the
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. He served in this position until October 23, 1981.
He died in Winnipeg on August 25, 1995.
References
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1914 births
1995 deaths
Lieutenant Governors of Manitoba
Manitoba Liberal Party MLAs
University of Manitoba alumni
Politicians from Winnipeg
Mayors of places in Manitoba
Franco-Manitoban people
Members of the Executive Council of Manitoba