Francis Lawrence "Bud" Jobin (August 14, 1914 – August 25, 1995) was a politician and the

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Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, Canada. Jobin was born in

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, and was educated at the

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, 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

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in the 1949 provincial election, as a

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candidate supporting the government of

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Douglas Campbell. Running in

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, he easily defeated independent incumbent Beresford Richards, who opposed the governing

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coalition. Jobin was re-elected in the 1953 election, easily defeating opponents from the

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(CCF) and

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. On July 6, 1956, he was sworn in as

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and

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in the Campbell government. Provincial CCF leader

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later referred to Jobin as Campbell's only "labour-oriented" minister. Campbell's Liberals were defeated by

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's Progressive Conservatives in the 1958 election, but Jobin was able to retain the redistributed riding of

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. He was defeated by Progressive Conservative Charles Witney in the following year's election, however, as Roblin's Tories won a majority government. When Campbell resigned as

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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

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, compared to 475 for the winner,

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. Jobin ran as a

candidate in the sprawling northern riding of

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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

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, 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

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in 1970, and continued his work on the municipal council. In October 1974, he was elected

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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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