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About Brian Ransom
- Brian Ransom (born June 6, 1940) was a Manitoba politician.
- In 1983, he unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.Ransom was born in Boissevain, Manitoba, and was educated at the University of Manitoba and the University of Alberta.
- He worked as a resource manager and farmer before entering public life. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1977, representing the rural riding of Souris-Killarney.
- In that year, Sterling Lyon's Progressive Conservatives won an upset victory over Edward Schreyer's New Democrats.
- Following the election, Ransom was appointed Minister of Mines, Resources and Environment.
- Following a reorganization of cabinet in 1979, he became Minister of Natural Resources and Chairman of the Treasury Board.
- In January 1981, he was promoted to Minister of Finance.Ransom did not serve long in this position, as Lyon's government fell to the NDP under Howard Pawley later in the year.
- Ransom, who was easily re-elected in the riding of Turtle Mountain, defeating Johannson by 3,115 votes.
- He ran for the party's leadership in 1983 as a representative of the party's rural/conservative wing, but was defeated on the second ballot by Gary Filmon, who was then regarded as a progressive.
- Subsequently, supporters of Ransom would allege that the Filmon camp encouraged third-place candidate Clayton Manness to run as a means of splitting the conservative vote. Ransom did not seek re-election in 1986.
- He subsequently became chairman of the Manitoba Hydro-Electric Board, and worked as a consultant in sustainable development.
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