Henry Pye (25 December 1873 – 9 April 1942) was an Australian politician. He was born at Burnewang near

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to farmer Edward Pye and Margaret Gorman. At the age of eleven he was apprenticed to a carpenter, and by the age of nineteen owned a building and contracting company. He went to the goldfields in

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, where he built bridges for the railways, before returning to

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, where he resumed control of his business. Around 1909 he married Alice Maria Jenkins, with whom he had three children. He retired in 1924. From 1917 to 1935 he served on Swan Hill Shire Council, with a term as president from 1931 to 1932. In 1932 he won a by-election for North Western Province in the

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, representing the Country Party. He was a minister without portfolio from 1935 until his death in Swan Hill in 1942.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pye, Henry 1873 births 1942 deaths National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Council