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Bud Orange

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Robert Orange
Member of Parliament
for Northwest Territories
In office
1965–1972
Preceded byEugène Rhéaume
Succeeded byWally Firth
Personal details
Born(1926-01-03)January 3, 1926
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
DiedMay 6, 2007(2007-05-06) (aged 81)
Ottawa
Political partyLiberal
ProfessionEconomist, public servant

Robert John "Bud" Orange (January 3, 1926 – May 6, 2007) was a politician, civil servant and economist from Northwest Territories, Canada. He served briefly with the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm in 1945. Orange worked at the Dominion Bureau of Statistics.

Robert ran for election to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1965 Canadian federal election for the Liberal Party of Canada and defeated incumbent Eugène Rhéaume.

He was re-elected in the 1968 Canadian federal election and served a second full term in office before retiring from federal politics in 1972. Orange died in 2007 at the age of 81, and was buried in St. Stephen's Cemetery in Old Chelsea, Quebec.


1968 Canadian federal election: Northwest Territories
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Liberal Robert Orange 6,018 63.80 +7.59
Progressive Conservative R. Van Norman 2,211 23.44 −15.68
New Democratic William Harvey Kent 1,203 12.75 +8.09
Total valid votes 9,432 100.0  
Liberal hold Swing +11.64

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