John William Bosley (May 4, 1947 – April 28, 2022) was a Canadian politician. He was best known for having been

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from November 5, 1984 to September 29, 1986.

Biography

Bosley received a BA in 1968 from

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in the

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. Prior to his election to

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, he was a businessman. A member of the

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, he was first elected in the 1979 election in the riding of Don Valley West in

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. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to

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. He was re-elected in the

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and 1984 elections. After the 1984 election, he was named

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. On June 27, 1985, the House adopted changes to the Standing Orders, providing for the election of the Speaker by secret ballot. Bosley presided over the first such election on September 30, 1986, after tendering his resignation. John Fraser won that election to become the 32nd Speaker of the House of Commons. Bosley was re-elected as a Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1988 election. He ran against incumbent John Fraser in the second election for Speaker but was unsuccessful. He was defeated in the 1993 general election in which the Progressive Conservative Party was reduced from 157 MPs to two. Starting in 1993, Bosley served as Advisor on Institutional Development to Parliaments all over the world but primarily in sub-Saharan Africa. In 2002, Bosley received the

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and in 2012 the

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. He died from heart failure in Toronto on April 28, 2022, at the age of 74.

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