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Allan Elliott McDonald (10 December 1903 – 16 October 1957) was an Australian politician. He was born in
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to lawyer Edward Allan McDonald and Alberta Bessie Elliott. He attended
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and
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, where he studied law. He practised as a barrister and solicitor from 1927. On 10 December 1927 he married Gertrude Leggo, with whom he had three children. During
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he served in New Guinea and held the rank of
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. He was a senior partner in his law firm from around 1937, and in 1940 he was elected to the
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as a Country Party member for
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. In 1947, McDonald and
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resigned from the Country Party after disagreements with the party leadership. McDonald spent a year as an
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before joining the
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in 1948. He was Minister of Labour from 1948 to 1950, and added the State Development portfolio in 1949. McDonald retired in 1952, and died in Newtown in 1957.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:McDonald, Allan Elliott 1903 births 1957 deaths National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians