Buddy MacEachern

James "Buddy" MacEachern was a Canadian politician from Nova Scotia. He represented the electoral district of Cape Breton Centre in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1974 to 1981. He was a member of the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party.

Life

MacEachern was born on June 29, 1940, at Sydney, Nova Scotia. He was a Catholic.
In the 1974 provincial election, MacEachern defeated Progressive Conservative incumbent Mike Laffin to win the Cape Breton Centre riding. He was re-elected in the 1978 election, and in 1980 became the party's interim leader following the resignation of Jeremy Akerman. He served for a month until a leadership convention elected Alexa McDonough as leader. At the convention, MacEachern was also a candidate, finishing third. In the 1981 election, MacEachern was defeated by the riding's former MLA, Mike Laffin.
MacEachern died on June 15, 2018, in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.