Frederic James "Eric" Allpass (21 September 1889 - 5 April 1977) was a member of the
Queensland Legislative Assembly
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Biography
Allpass was born in
Warwick
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,
Queensland
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, the son of Frederic William Allpass and his wife Isabel Jane (née Merry). He was educated at
Laidley State School and on leaving school became a
dairy farmer
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and
grazier.
On the 21 November 1921 Allpass married Florence Marian Guille and together had a son and two daughters. He died in April 1977 at
Toowoomba
Toowoomba ( , nicknamed 'The Garden City' and 'T-Bar') is a city in the Toowoomba Region of the Darling Downs, Queensland, Australia. It is west of Queensland's capital city Brisbane by road. The urban population of Toowoomba as of the 2021 C ...
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Public career
At the 1950 Queensland state election
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 29 April 1950 to elect the 75 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. The Labor government was seeking its seventh continuous term in office since the 1932 election; it would be ...
, Allpass won the new seat of Condamine for the Country Party, easily defeating his Labor
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opponent, Michael Lyons. In 1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
however, the new Labor candidate, Les Diplock
Leslie Frank Louis "Les" Diplock CMG (16 September 1899 – 6 November 1983) was an Australian politician.
Diplock was born in South Brisbane to house-painter Louis Diplock and Louisa May, ''née'' Lucas and attended state and private sch ...
, turned the tables and defeated Allpass.[
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References
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Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
1889 births
1977 deaths
20th-century Australian politicians
People from Warwick, Queensland