William David Hodson (20 February 1891 – 12 July 1971) was an Australian politician. He was born in

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, in which he was wounded. On 27 September 1919 he married Margaret Pritchard Phillips, with whom he had four children. After the war he became a foreman for the Forestry Department, and from around 1925 worked as a postal linesman. In 1940 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for Castlemaine and Kyneton. He held the seat until its abolition in 1945. Hodson died in Bundoora in 1971.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hodson, Bill 1891 births 1971 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians Australian military personnel of World War I Military personnel from Victoria (Australia)