Clement James Drummond Smith (26 July 1894 – 7 June 1968) was an Australian politician who represented the

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seat of

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from 1938 to 1941 as an

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. He was one of 14 of 39 lower house MPs at the 1938 election to be elected as an independent, which as a grouping won 40 percent of the primary vote, more than either of the major parties.

Tom Stott Tom Cleave Stott CBE (6 June 1899 – 21 October 1976) spent 37 years as an independent member of the South Australian House of Assembly, from 1933 to 1970. He served as Speaker of the House from 1962 to 1965 for the Tom Playford LCL governme ...

was the ''de facto'' leader of the independent caucus within parliament.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Clement 1894 births 1968 deaths Members of the South Australian House of Assembly Independent members of the Parliament of South Australia 20th-century Australian politicians