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William George Bryson (24 February 1898 – 2 March 1973) was an Australian politician for the
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from 1943 to 1946 and 1949 to 1955 and helped establish the Democratic Labor Party. Bryson won the
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seat of Bourke at the 1943 election, but was beaten by the independent
Doris Blackburn Doris Amelia Blackburn (; 18 September 1889 – 12 December 1970) was an Australian social reformer and politician. She served in the House of Representatives from 1946 to 1949, the second woman after Enid Lyons to do so. Blackburn was a promin ...
at the 1946 election. Bourke was abolished prior to the 1949 election and partly replaced by
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and Bryson defeated Blackburn at the election. In 1955, Bryson and six other Victorian federal members were expelled from the Labor Party as members of the
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. In April 1955, they established the
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, which was renamed the Democratic Labor Party in 1957. Bryson was beaten by the Labor candidate,
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at the 1955 election. Bryson was the treasurer of the Carlton Football Club from 1927 to 1943. http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Club+Treasurers He died on 2 March 1973, in
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, aged 75.


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Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia Democratic Labour Party members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Bourke Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Wills Members of the Australian House of Representatives 1898 births 1973 deaths 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Labor-representative-stub