Bud Gregory

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| name = Bud Gregory

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| office = Ontario MPP

| term_start = 1975

| term_end = 1987

| predecessor = New riding

| successor = John Sola

| constituency = Mississauga East

| party = Progressive Conservative

| birth_name = Milton Edward Charles Gregory

| birth_date = {{birth date |1926|03|09}}

| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario

| death_date = {{death date and age|2016|06|17|1926|03|09}}

| death_place = Picton, Ontario

| occupation = Insurance broker

| spouse = Shirley

| children = 2

}}

Milton Edward Charles "Bud" Gregory (March 9, 1926 – June 17, 2016) was a Canadian politician in Ontario. He served as a Progressive Conservative member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who represented the riding of Mississauga East from 1975 to 1987. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller.

Background

Gregory was born in Toronto and educated at Western Technical-Commercial School. He worked as an insurance broker.

Politics

Gregory was a councillor in Mississauga from 1971 to 1975, and in the County of Peel from 1972 to 1973, and in the Regional Municipality of Peel from 1974 to 1975.

He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate Irene Robinson by 1,335 votes in Mississauga East.{{cite news |title=Table of vote results for all Ontario ridings |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=September 19, 1975 |page=C12}} He defeated Robinson again with an increased majority in the 1977 election,{{cite news |title=Ontario provincial election results riding by riding |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=June 10, 1977 |page=D9}} and was named a minister without portfolio in Bill Davis's government on August 30, 1979.{{cite news |title=Minor shuffle in Davis Cabinet: Welch will seek compromise on oil price |last=Speirs |first=Rosemary |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=August 31, 1979 |page=4}} Easily returned in the 1981 election,{{cite news|author=Canadian Press |title=Winds of change, sea of security |newspaper=The Windsor Star |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0NtYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QlIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1444%2C1388326 |date=March 20, 1981 |location=Windsor, Ontario |page=22 |accessdate=2014-04-01}} he was named Chief Government Whip on April 10, 1981.{{cite news |title=Norton gets Environment as Davis shuffles Cabinet |last=Speirs |first=Rosemary |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=April 10, 1981 |page=1}} On July 6, 1983, he was promoted to Minister of Revenue.{{cite news |title=Shuffle gives Treasury job to Grossman |last1=Speirs |first1=Rosemary |last2=Stead |first2=Sylvia |last3=Cruikshank |first3=John |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=July 6, 1983 |pages=1, 2}}

Gregory supported Frank Miller in the Progressive Conservative Party's January 1985 leadership convention, but was dropped from cabinet when Miller succeeded Davis as Premier of Ontario on February 8, 1985. He was re-elected with a reduced majority in the 1985 election as the Progressive Conservatives under Miller were reduced to a tenuous minority government.{{cite news |title=Results of vote in Ontario election |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=May 3, 1985 |page=13}} He was re-appointed to cabinet on May 17, 1985 as Solicitor General, but accomplished little in this portfolio before the Miller government was defeated in the legislature.{{cite news |title=The new Cabinet |newspaper=The Globe and Mail |date=May 18, 1985 |page=11}} In opposition, he served as critic for the Solicitor General and for Transportation and Communications. He was defeated in the 1987 election, losing to Liberal candidate John Sola by 5,873 votes.{{cite news |title=Results from individual ridings |newspaper=The Windsor Star |date=September 11, 1987 |page=F2}}

=Cabinet=

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Later life

Gregory was appointed to the County of Prince Edward Police Services Board in 2001.{{cite web|url=http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/committee-proceedings/committee_transcripts_details.do?locale=en&BillID=&ParlCommID=5&Date=2001-01-24&Business=Intended+Appointments&DocumentID=19596#P494_116083|title=Committee Transcripts: Standing Committee on Government Agencies - January 24, 2001 - Intended Appointments|publisher=Legislative Assembly of Ontario|accessdate=14 March 2014}} Bud Gregory Boulevard, in Mississauga, was named in Gregory's honour. On June 17, 2016, he died in Picton, Ontario at the age of 90.{{cite web |title=Milton E. C. "Bud" Gregory |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?n=milton-e-c-gregory-bud&pid=180379077&fhid=17732 |publisher=Toronto Star |date=June 19, 2016}}

References

External links

{{Ontario MPP biography|id=milton-edward-charles-gregory}}

Category:1926 births

Category:2016 deaths

Category:Politicians from Toronto

Category:Members of the Executive Council of Ontario

Category:Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs

Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario