Edwin Joseph Mackrell (16 December 1878 – 24 March 1965) was an Australian politician. He was born in Strathbogie to farmer George Mackrell and Mary Ann Perkins. He attended state school until the age of fourteen, when he began work in a butter factory at

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. By 1896 he was managing a butter factory at Fish Creek. He went to the goldfields in

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in 1901, returning to

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in 1905 but travelling to

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in 1908. On 15 July 1910 he married Elsie Flora Harris, with whom he had three daughters. He remained in South Africa until 1916, when he returned to farm at first

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and then, from 1918, Strathbogie. In 1920 he was elected to the

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for Upper Goulburn, representing the Country Party. He was Assistant Minister of Railways from 1924 to 1927, and later served as Minister of Sustenance from 1935 to 1936, Minister of Labour from 1936 to 1943,

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from 1942 to 1943, and Minister of

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and Decentralisation in

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's stop-gap ministry in 1945. In supporting Macfarlan against

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he had been expelled from the Country Party, and he was defeated contesting

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in 1945. Mackrell died in

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in 1965.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mackrell, Edwin 1878 births 1965 deaths National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Independent members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Ministers for Health (Victoria) Ministers for Water (Victoria) Ministers for Labour (Victoria)