Buda Brown

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1894–1962)}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Buda Hosmer Brown

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| birth_name = Buda Hosmer Jenkins

| birth_date = {{birth date|1894|6|10}}

| birth_place = Bellingham, Washington, United States

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1962|8|12|1894|6|10}}

| death_place = Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

| constituency_AM2 = Vancouver-Point Grey

| assembly2 = British Columbia Legislative

| alongside2 = Thomas Audley Bate (1953–1963) and Robert Bonner (1953–1963)

| term_start2 = September 19, 1956

| term_end2 = August 12, 1962

| predecessor2 = Arthur Laing

| successor2 = Pat McGeer

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| spouse = Donald Cameron Brown

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Buda Hosmer Brown (née Jenkins; June 10, 1894 – August 12, 1962{{Cite web |url=http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1962.htm |title=History of Metropolitan Vancouver |access-date=2019-01-01 |archive-date=2018-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731214354/http://www.vancouverhistory.ca/chronology1962.htm |url-status=dead }}) was a political figure in British Columbia. She represented Vancouver-Point Grey in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1956 to 1962 as a Social Credit member.

She was born in Bellingham, Washington, the daughter of William D. Jenkins, and later married Donald Cameron Brown. She served eight years as a Vancouver Parks commissioner.{{cite news |title=City's Buda Brown Gets Cabinet Post |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jZhlAAAAIBAJ&pg=2762,5542736|publisher=Vancouver Sun |date=November 29, 1960 |page=6 |accessdate=2011-12-23}} Brown ran unsuccessfully as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the federal riding of Vancouver—Burrard in 1953 before being elected to the provincial assembly as a member of the Social Credit party. Brown served in the provincial cabinet as minister without portfolio from November 28, 1960 to her death. She died in office at the age of 68.{{cite news |title=Social Credit minister dies of lengthy illness |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_9ZUAAAAIBAJ&pg=7113,1876140 |page=7 |newspaper=Leader-Post |location=Regina |date=August 13, 1962 |accessdate=2011-12-23}}