Edward Lloyd Sanders (2 December 1888 – 10 July 1943) was an Australian politician. He was born at Burwood in

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to master carrier Edward Ernest Sanders and Jessie Agnes, ''née'' Lloyd. He attended Burwood Public School and

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before working in his father's business and eventually becoming a customs and shipping agent. On 14 October 1911 he married Ethel May Hindmarsh at

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, with whom he had three children. He was elected to the

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in 1925 as a

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member for

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; when single-member electorates were re-introduced in 1927 he was unable to gain preselection for a seat, but won Willoughby anyway as an

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. Rejoining the Nationalist Party in 1930, he served until his death at North Sydney on 10 July 1943.

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