Harry Gordon Jackett (6 July 1887 – 3 May 1951) was an Australian politician and a member of the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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from 1935 and 1938 and from 1941 until his death. He was variously a
United Australia Party
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(UAP), Independent UAP,
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and
Liberal Party
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member of parliament .
Jackett was born in
Laura, South Australia
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and educated in Adelaide. His father owned a flour milling business which Jackett inherited and enlarged. He commenced a branch of the business in
Strathfield, New South Wales
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in 1918. Jackett was an alderman on
Burwood Municipal Council between 1922 and 1935 and was elected mayor in 1935. Jackett was elected to the New South Wales Parliament as the United Australia Party member for
Burwood at the
1935
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January
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state election, succeeding the retiring UAP member
Thomas Henley. At the
1938
Events
January
* January 1
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election, the UAP endorsed both Jackett and
Harrie Mitchell
Harrie Robert Croft Mitchell (27 June 1906 – 5 February 1967) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for a single term between 1938 and 1941. He was a member of the United Australia Party
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. Mitchell won the seat but Jackett regained it as an Independent UAP candidate in
1941
Events
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January
* January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
. He successfully contested the seat as a Democratic Party candidate in
1944
Events
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January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
and was a foundation member of the Liberal Party in 1946. He died in office in 1951. He did not hold parliamentary, party or ministerial office. His son,
John Jackett, was also a member of the Legislative Assembly.
References
1887 births
1951 deaths
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
People from Laura, South Australia
20th-century Australian politicians
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