Alfred Charles Burnett Gray (21 August 1884 – 27 May 1968) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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to merchant Charles Watson Gray and Mary Ann Thomas. He worked as a secretary at Melbourne Children's Hospital in 1901 but returned to manage his father's business in

from 1902 to 1906. He was a gold miner at Bullfinch in 1910 and Ararat in 1911 before becoming a clerk with a Melbourne wool firm in 1912. On 18 March 1910 he married Queenie Hilary Margaret Smith. During

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he served with the 22nd Battalion and was wounded. He served on St Kilda City Council from 1914 to 1915 and from 1920 to 1948 and was mayor from 1922 to 1923 and from 1926 to 1927; he was the first returned soldier to serve as mayor of any Victorian city. In 1927 he won the seat of St Kilda in the

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, representing the new

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. He was re-elected in 1929 but lost his seat in 1932. Gray died in

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in 1968.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gray, Burnett 1884 births 1968 deaths Australian Liberal Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly People from Geraldton 20th-century Australian politicians