Robert Henry Claude Stubbs (2 April 1905 – 25 May 1998) was an Australian politician who was a Labor Party member of the Legislative Council of

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from 1962 to 1980, representing

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. He served as a minister in the government of

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. Stubbs was born in

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, to Mary Jane (née Marshall) and Stokes Stubbs. He attended the

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and

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, and then worked as a miner in

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. Stubbs moved to

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in 1932, and then to Norseman in 1937, where he eventually became an underground supervisor. He later worked as a health inspector for the

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. Stubbs entered parliament at the 1962 Legislative Council elections, defeating John Cunningham (the sitting

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member). He was made a Labor Party

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in 1965, and after the Labor victory at the 1971 state election was made Chief Secretary and Minister for Local Government in the new ministry formed by John Tonkin. Stubbs remained in the ministry until the Labor government was defeated at the 1974 election, and left parliament at the 1980 election. He died in

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in May 1998, aged 93. Stubbs had married Violet Gammage in 1931, with whom he had three children.Robert Henry Claude Stubbs
– Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 13 May 2016.

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