Frank Robert Welsh (12 April 1871 – 28 December 1959) was an Australian politician who represented the

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n Legislative Assembly seat of

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from 1933 until 1939, and one of the three Legislative Council seats for North Province from 1940 until 1954. He was a member of the Nationalist Party until 1945, when the party merged into the Liberal Party.

Biography

Welsh was born in

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, south of

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, to William Charles Welsh, a sugar manufacture and auctioneer, and Jane (née Porter). In 1891, he moved to Western Australia, and he married Amy Hancock on 4 November 1903 at Warralong Station near Marble Bar, in which he had acquired an interest and later became a managing partner. They had two sons and a daughter. At the 1933 state election, he contested the Labor-held seat of

, whose member

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had retired after three terms. He won the seat on a 12% swing—despite his party being reduced to a minor party on the floor of Parliament at the same election. He won on a slightly increased margin in 1936, before being defeated in 1939 by

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of the Labor Party. He then stood for and won a North Province seat at the 1940 periodic elections for the Legislative Council, which he held for 14 years. He died on 28 December 1959 in Kalamunda, and was buried in

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Welsh, Frank 1871 births 1959 deaths Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Politicians from Queensland Burials at Karrakatta Cemetery Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Western Australia