Edmund Wilson Greenwood (21 September 1881 – 7 September 1948) was an Australian politician. He was born in Campbelltown in

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to Methodist minister Henry Greenwood and Caroline Jane Tuckfield. The family moved to

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around 1890, and Greenwood became an office boy and from 1897 a farm labourer. He suffered an accident in 1902 and returned to

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, becoming a commercial traveller. From 1904 he ran a tent manufacturing firm, which eventually expanded to become a large softgoods warehouse. On 6 February 1906 he married Myra Frances Burchett, with whom he had seven children. In 1917 he was elected to the

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for

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; he was considered a

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, but never sought formal party endorsement. He continued in the Assembly, transferring to

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in 1927, until he retired to allow

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to run for a lower house seat in 1929. Greenwood died in

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in 1948.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Greenwood, Edmund 1881 births 1948 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 20th-century Australian politicians