Francis Lawrence Jobin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician
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Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
About Francis Lawrence Jobin
- 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 Douglas Campbell.
- Running in The Pas, he easily defeated independent incumbent Beresford Richards, who opposed the governing Liberal-Conservative coalition.Jobin was re-elected in the 1953 election, easily defeating opponents from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and Social Credit.
- On July 6, 1956, he was sworn in as Railway Commissioner 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 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, 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.
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