Milton Edward Charles Gregory (born March 9, 1926) is a former politician in Ontario

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, Canada

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. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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 from 1975 to 1987 and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis

Bill Davis

William Grenville "Bill" Davis, was the 18th Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1971 to 1985. Davis was first elected as the MPP for Peel in the 1959 provincial election where he was a backbencher in Leslie Frost's government. Under John Robarts, he was a cabinet minister overseeing the education...

 and Frank Miller

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. Gregory was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

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.

Gregory was born in Toronto

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 and educated at Western Technical-Commercial School. He worked as an insurance broker. He was a councillor in Mississauga

Mississauga, Ontario

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 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 first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election

Ontario general election, 1975

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, defeating Liberal

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 candidate Irene Robinson by 1,331 votes in Mississauga East

Mississauga East

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. He defeated Robinson again with an increased majority in the 1977 election

Ontario general election, 1977

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, and was named a minister without portfolio

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 in Bill Davis's government on August 30, 1979. Easily returned in the 1981 election

Ontario general election, 1981

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, he was named Chief Government Whip

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 on April 10, 1981. On July 6, 1983, he was promoted to Minister of Revenue.

Gregory supported Frank Miller in the Progressive Conservative Party's January 1985 leadership convention

Ontario Progressive Conservative leadership conventions, 1985

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, but was dropped from cabinet when Miller succeeded Davis as Premier of Ontario

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 on February 8, 1985. He was re-elected with a reduced majority in the 1985 election

Ontario general election, 1985

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 as the Progressive Conservatives under Miller were reduced to a tenuous minority government

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. 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. In opposition, he served as critic for the Solicitor General and for Transportation and Communications. He was defeated in the 1987 election

Ontario general election, 1987

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, losing to Liberal candidate John Sola

John Sola

John Domagoj Sola is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1987 to 1995. Originally a Liberal, he was forced to leave his party over controversy arising from his criticism of Bosnian Serbs.Sola has a Bachelor of Arts degree from...

by 5,873 votes.

There is currently a Bud Gregory Boulevard in Mississauga. Gregory was appointed to the County of Prince Edward Police Services Board in 2001.