Colin Douglas MacDonald (24 August 1890 – 2 September 1975) was an Australian politician. He was born in Balmain in

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to cabinet maker Colin MacDonald and Ellen Trinder. He was educated in

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but left school at the age of eleven to become a painter and later a tram driver. Around 1915 he married Alice May Hillier, with whom he had two sons. In 1955 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for

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, but he was defeated in 1958. MacDonald died in Geelong in 1975.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:MacDonald, Colin 1890 births 1975 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians