Frederick Dickson Graham (13 May 1899 – 11 June 1996) was a member of the

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Biography

Graham was born at

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, the son of Joseph Henry Graham and his wife Louisa Jane (née Stephens). When he arrived in Queensland he took up farming. He attended primary school in Croydon and by 1916 he was working as an engine driver and cleaner for Queensland Railways. From 1925 until his election to parliament he worked as a fireman in

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. On 14 June 1922 he married Agnes May Bowling (died 1977)Family history research
— Queensland Government births, deaths, marriages, and divorces. Retrieved 23 May 2016. and together had one daughter. Graham died in

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in June 1996 and was cremated at the

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.Frederick Dickson Graham ( - 1996)
— Heaven Address. Retrieved 23 May 2016.

Public career

When the

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William Forgan Smith William Forgan Smith (15 April 188725 September 1953) was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of the state of Queensland from 1932 to 1942. He came to dominate politics in the state during the 1930s, and his populism, firm leadership ...

, retired from politics in December 1942,Smith, Hon. William Forgan
—

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. Retrieved 23 May 2016. Graham, a fellow Labor Party member, won the resultant

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. He went on to represent the electorate for 26 years before retiring from politics at the 1969 Queensland state election. In 1972 and after his retirement, Graham was expelled from the Labor Party after criticising the decision of the special Labor convention that year in not re-endorsing

Ed Casey Edmund Denis Casey (2 January 1933 – 1 May 2006), known as Ed, was best known as the leader of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland between 1978 and 1982. He also served as Primary Industries Minister in the government of Wayne Goss betwe ...

, who successfully stood in the 1972 state election as an Independent Labor candidate. He was re-admitted to the party in 1977 which was seen in part as a further step in coercing Casey to return to the party. At the time of his death in 1996 he was the oldest former member of the House and the last surviving member of

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government from 1942 to 1946.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Graham, Frederick Dickson Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1899 births 1996 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Queensland 20th-century Australian politicians