Brian James Doe (26 January 1862 – 16 April 1941) was an Australian politician. Doe was born in

Portland, Victoria Portland is a city in Victoria, Australia, and is the oldest European settlement in the state. It is also the main urban centre in the Shire of Glenelg and is located on Portland Bay. As of the 2021 census the population was 10,016, increasing ...

, and educated at Warrnambool and moved to Mount Gambier, South Australia when he was eleven. He worked as a blacksmith and a railway porter at

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from 1888 until 1899. He married Hannah Fairbank in about 1887 and they had four daughters and two sons. He moved to

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in about 1906 and worked as an estate agent. Doe was councillor on Broken Hill council from 1906 until 1911. He was a member of the Australian Labour Party, but was expelled in 1916 for supporting conscription. In 1917, he was elected as a

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to the seat of

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in the

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. With the absorption of Murray into the multi-member electorate of Sturt in 1920, he became one of its members and held his seat until 1927. He simultaneously served as mayor of Ermington-Rydalmere in Sydney from 1917 to 1919. Doe died in the

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suburb of

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Doe, Brian James Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales 1862 births 1941 deaths People from Portland, Victoria Mayors of places in New South Wales People from the Colony of Victoria