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Members Of The Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1957–1963
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council between 1957 and 1963. Terms of the Legislative Council did not coincide with Legislative Assembly elections, and members served six year terms, with a number of members facing election each year. Elections Members Notes : In November 1958, Elliot Lillico, the member for Meander, resigned. Charles Best won the resulting by-election on 6 December 1958. : On 7 December 1958, George Flowers, the member for Westmorland, died. Oliver Gregory won the resulting by-election on 14 February 1959. : On 21 April 1959, Geoffrey Green, the member for Monmouth, died. Louis Bisdee won the resulting by-election on 4 July 1959. : On 25 April 1960, Neil Campbell, the member for Tamar, died. Liberal candidate Daniel Hitchcock won the resulting by-election on 9 July 1960. : In November 1961, John Orchard, the member for Cornwall Cornwall (; kw, Kernow ) is a historic county and ceremonial county in South West ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmanian Legislative Council
The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. Members of the Legislative Council are often referred to as MLCs. The Legislative Council has 15 members elected using preferential voting in 15 single-member electorates. Each electorate has approximately the same number of electors. A review of Legislative Council division boundaries is required every 9 years; the most recent was completed in 2017. Election of members in the Legislative Council are staggered. Elections alternate between three divisions in one year and in two divisions the next year. Elections take place on the first Saturday in May. The term of each MLC is six years. The Tasmanian Legislative Council is a unique parliamentary chamber in Australian politics in that historically it is the only chamber in any stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Buckingham
The electoral division of Buckingham was an electoral division in the Tasmanian Legislative Council of Australia. It was abolished in 1999 after the Legislative Council was reduced from 19 members to 15. The then sitting member, David Crean, was allocated as the member for Elwick. Members See also *Buckingham Land District *Tasmanian Legislative Council electoral divisions The Tasmanian Legislative Council has fifteen single member constituencies, called divisions. Current divisions The fifteen Tasmanian Legislative Council divisions as of the 2016-17 redistribution are:''Legislative Council Electoral Boundaries A ... External linksParliament Tasmania - Past election results for Buckingham {{DEFAULTSORT:Buckingham Former electoral districts of Tasmania Southern Tasmania 1999 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Campbell (politician)
Neil Campbell (21 March 1880 – 25 April 1960) was an Australian politician. He was born in Winkleigh, Tasmania. In 1922 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist member for Wilmot. He was Chair of Committees from 1931 to 1934, when he briefly became a minister. From 1945 to 1950 he served as Leader of the Opposition The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government. The leader of the opposition is typically se .... He resigned from the House of Assembly in 1955 to contest Tamar in the Legislative Council, which he represented until his death in 1960 in Launceston. References 1880 births 1960 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bell Connolly
James Bell Connolly (21 January 1892 – 14 September 1970) was an Australian politician. He was born in Newtown, Tasmania. In 1948 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Labor member for Buckingham Buckingham ( ) is a market town in north Buckinghamshire, England, close to the borders of Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, which had a population of 12,890 at the 2011 Census. The town lies approximately west of Central Milton Keynes, sou .... He served until his retirement in 1968. References 1892 births 1970 deaths Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Tasmania 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cheek (Australian Politician)
Thomas Lefroy Cheek (28 December 1894 – 26 September 1994) was an Australian politician. He was born in Evandale, the son of politician John Cheek and his wife Lydia. In 1950 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ... member for Macquarie. He served as Chair of Committees from 1966 until his retirement in 1968. Cheek died in 1994. References 1894 births 1994 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Carins
Lloyd Horton Carins (29 June 1923 – 16 July 2007) was an Australian politician in Tasmania. He was born in Tasmania. In 1962 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ... member for South Esk. He was Chair of Committees from 1979 to 1980, in which year he retired. Carins died on 16 July 2007, aged 84. References 1923 births 2007 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Officers of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Brown (Australian Politician)
Ronald Herbert Brown (29 January 1915 – 5 April 1992) was an Australian politician. He was born in Glen Huon Glen Huon is a rural residential locality in the local government area of Huon Valley in the South-east region of Tasmania. It is located about west of the town of Huonville. The 2016 census has a population of 661 for the state suburb of Gle ..., Tasmania. In 1948 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Huon. He was Chair of Committees from 1957 until his defeat in 1966. References 1915 births 1992 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Bisdee
Louis Fenn Bisdee (22 September 1910 – 16 November 2010) was an Australian politician. Career He was born in Tasmania. In 1959 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Monmouth. He served until he was defeated in 1981. Bisdee died in Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ... in 2010 at the age of 100. References 1910 births 2010 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Australian centenarians Men centenarians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Best (politician)
Charles Robinson Best (14 June 1909 – 24 May 1996) was an Australian politician. He was born in Longford, the son of politician Percy Best. In 1950 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Liberal member for Wilmot. He held the seat until 1958, when he resigned to run for the Legislative Council seat of Meander as an independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ .... He won, and held the seat until his defeat in 1971. He died in 1996 in Deloraine. References 1909 births 1996 deaths Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians People from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch)
The Australian Labor Party (Tasmanian Branch), commonly known as Tasmanian Labor, is the Tasmanian branch of the Australian Labor Party. It has been one of the most successful state Labor parties in Australia in terms of electoral success. History Late beginnings: until 1903 The Labor Party came into existence in Tasmania later than in the mainland states, in part due to the weak state of nineteenth-century Tasmanian trade unionism compared to the rest of the country. The two main Trades and Labor Councils, in Hobart and Launceston, were badly divided along north–south lines, and were always small; they collapsed altogether in 1897 (Hobart) and 1898 (Launceston). Denis Murphy attributes the poor state of the unions to a number of factors, including a more conservative workforce, divisions between various groups of workers, the smaller nature of Tasmanian industry, heavy penalties directed against a prominent early union leader, Hugh Kirk, and a lack of job security for the mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phyllis Benjamin
Phyllis Jean Benjamin (30 August 1907 – 9 April 1996), Labor Party politician, was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council in the electorate of Hobart from 10 May 1952 until her retirement on 22 May 1976. Born Phyllis Allsopp, she married Albert Benjamin in Sydney on 10 March 1926. In 1948, their daughter, Jill Benjamin, married Bill Neilson who went on to become Premier of Tasmania.Peter Boyce'Neilson, William Arthur (Bill) (1925–1989)' ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 2012, accessed online 19 November 2015. She stood for the division of Hobart as a Labor candidate when sitting member John Soundy retired on 10 May 1952. She won the division easily with 1,433 votes; the next highest candidate received only 563 votes. Despite her sex, Benjamin was reported as one of the "36 faceless men" reported to be in control of the Australian Labor Party in the lead up to the 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Baker (politician)
Sir Henry Seymour Baker (1 September 1890 – 20 July 1968) was an English-born Australian politician. Biography He was born in Liverpool. He qualified with a Bachelor (1913) and Master (1915) of Law. He served in the First World War, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. In 1928 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist member for Franklin. From 1936 to 1945 he was Leader of the Opposition. He retired from the House in 1946 and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George. In 1948 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent member for Queenborough. He was elected President of the Council in 1959 and was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1960. Baker died in 1968 in Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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