Bud Sherman

Who is Bud Sherman?

Louis Ralph Sherman is a retired politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Canadian House of Commons during the 1960s, and was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1969 to 1984, serving as a cabinet minister in the government of Sterling Lyon.

Sherman was educated at the University of Manitoba. He served with the Canadian Officers' Training Corps in 1947-49, graduating as a First Lieutenant. Subsequently, he worked as a broadcaster, journalist, and newspaper editor.

In the Canadian federal election of 1965, Sherman was elected to the House of Commons for the riding of Winnipeg South as a Progressive Conservative, defeating Liberal Margaret Konantz by about 3,000 votes. Sherman served as an opposition MP for three years, before losing his seat to high-profile Liberal candidate James Richardson by over 8,000 votes in the federal election of 1968. Following his loss, he wrote a regular column in the Winnipeg Tribune.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the provincial election of 1969, defeating his NDP opponent by more than 1,500 votes in the south-end Winnipeg riding of Fort Garry. The NDP formed a minority government after the election, and Sherman again sat as an opposition member. In the election of 1973, he was narrowly re-elected over Liberal candidate Henry Janzen.