Gordon Charlton Mackie (13 August 1911 – 5 May 1990) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...
representing the
seat of Albury.
Mackie moved to
Albury
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as a young man where his father was a businessman and farmer and Gordon Mackie became a grazier. He served in the
Second Australian Imperial Force
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during
World War II
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. He married Edna and had one son and one daughter. He was a councillor of
Culcairn Shire from 1959 until 1965 and deputy president of it from 1959 until 1965.
Mackie was elected the
Liberal
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member for Albury in 1965 and held it until he retired in 1977. He was later replaced by
Harold Mair
Harold David Mair, OAM (2 June 1919 – 7 September 2011) was an Australian politician. Mair was mayor of Albury from 1976 until 1977. In 1978, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Albury, representing the ...
in 1977. He died in Albury.
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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales
1911 births
1990 deaths
20th-century Australian politicians
Australian Army personnel of World War II
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