David Daniel Stupich was a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1963 to 1969 and from 1972 to 1988, and a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993.
15 Facts About David Stupich
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David Stupich served five years in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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David Stupich then became a chicken farmer and studied at night to become a Chartered Accountant.
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David Stupich donated his spare time to doing books for local service clubs.
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David Stupich's first political campaign was an unsuccessful bid to become a member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia in 1949.
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David Stupich was the provincial CCF party candidate for the Nanaimo and the Islands riding.
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David Stupich was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1952 and 1953 provincial elections.
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David Stupich entered provincial politics by winning the Nanaimo and the Islands riding in the 1963 British Columbia election.
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David Stupich was re-elected in the 1966 provincial election when the riding name changed to simply Nanaimo, but lost the riding to Social Credit candidate Frank Ney in the 1969 election.
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David Stupich served as British Columbia's Minister of Finance from October to December 1975.
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David Stupich served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to Bob Ringma of the Reform Party in the 1993 federal election.
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David Stupich was the central figure in a scandal known as Bingogate.
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David Stupich pleaded guilty that year to fraud and running an illegal lottery, involving the misappropriation of about $1 million from the NCHS.
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David Stupich was sentenced to two years, serving it on electronic monitoring at his daughter's home in Nanaimo.
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David Stupich died in 2006 at Dufferin Place, a long-term care facility in Nanaimo.