Frederick William Hagelthorn (23 January 1864 – 21 July 1943) was an Australian politician. He was born near

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to Swedish-born seaman Frederick Hagelthorn and Mary Robertson. He worked at the mines in Allendale, as a wharf lumper, and as a grocery assistant at Stawell and

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; he also returned to school, graduating from Creswick Grammar School in 1890. He established a store at

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and then Horsham, where he then changed careers to become a stock and station agent in 1904. On 9 February 1905 he married Sarah Elizabeth Newton; they had five daughters. In 1907 he was elected to the

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for North Western Province. He joined the ministry as Minister of Immigration in 1909, moving to Public Health and Public Works in June 1913. In December 1913 he shed the Public Health portfolio, and in 1915 he moved to Agriculture. Hagelthorn left the front bench in 1917, and in 1919 attempted to transfer to

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without success. He later ran unsuccessfully for the Legislative Assembly seat of Mornington in 1924. After leaving the parliament, Hagelthorn worked as an estate agent in

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, with some success. He died in 1943.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hagelthorn, Frederick 1864 births 1943 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council People from Ballarat Australian stock and station agents Victorian Ministers for Agriculture